Cabin Girl is a 82,000 word novel about pirates, faith, and family, and doesn't have anything sexual or explicit in nature. That said, I will throw in a content warning for some violence, trauma, detailed but not graphic descriptions of a couple of wounds, topics pertaining to mental health and suicide (that are conversed lightly, but never delved too deeply into), and fake swears on occasion. Nothing that exceeds a typical YA novel by any means, but I'd rather be safe than sorry. If any of that is outside of your comfort zone, that's totally okay! :)
FULL SYNOPSIS:
Four years ago, Éirinn O’Connell’s papa disappeared at sea. Long after Éirinn has given up on his return, her mama continues to watch the horizon, her grasp of reality slipping and memories blurring. Young Éirinn learns all she can of medicine, desperate to provide for her mama and sister, and spends her days struggling to assist villagers who shun her for her crooked back.
One night, Barbary pirates raid her village, and Éirinn – mistaken for a boy – is torn from her home and family. The truth sparks upset – and a plan. Until reaching the slave markets in Morocco, Éirinn is forced to tend to the sick quartermaster. In addition, she must serve as cabin girl to the hard-hearted Captain Gills, a man bent on thwarting her every attempt to return home, to the family she prays still lives.
But Éirinn soon finds that all is not what it seems aboard The Lonely Eye. Unrest brews and mutiny whispers. Allies appear in unexpected places. A cunning enemy plots. What if Éirinn never makes it home? Will the God she trusts carry her through the storms? And how can something so painful ever bring good? The answers are unlike anything she expects.
