Freedom smells of gunpowder and salt, and fortune favors the bold. Jake is a captain with eyes of liquid gold and a clouded past. He defies every rule, keeps a black cat on deck, and lives by one truth: the legendary Black Pearl belongs to him by right. Is he a daring adventurer or the heir of one whose name the sea longs to forget? While Port Royal prepares the noose, Jake gathers a crew of desperate outcasts. For the true treasure is not gold in chests, but the right to forge one's own path.

Fate often hides a dark path, but the one laid out for Moonpebble is a burden you wouldn’t wish upon your worst enemy. The poor medicine cat holds a terrifying power: she is the key to either purging the world of evil or bringing about its total ruin. Will she become the world's savior, or will she be its bitter end?

Warm drinks are especially good in winter. Especially hot chocolate, when you're sitting wrapped in a warm blanket in front of the fireplace.

Ash fell from the sky like snow…