What would you do if you found a crown floating in the water? Avonlea is a normal college girl, with friends, a doting boyfriend, and a graduation ahead of her. But when she puts on a dingy crown she finds in the water by her university, she's transported to a whole new world... a world filled with monsters, fairies, and terrible spells. Most shocking of all, she is declared the new queen of the Island of Sorrows. Can Avonlea rise up to meet these challenges? Can she be the queen the island needs? Or will she fall prey to the most terrible enemy of all: her own sorrows?

Freedom lies on the open sea. Danger lies within it. Rachel Goldstein dreams of the vast oceans, and her job in the Navy seems to offer her everything she’d ever hoped for. Her heart seeks adventure, but her mind is still ashore, where the last time she saw her parents, they had a fight that left everyone in tears. She wants reconciliation… which becomes impossible when she dies in a tragic aviation accident aboard her aircraft carrier. When she wakes up aboard a ghost ship, her new shipmates offer Rachel her only chance to seize adventure again, and she knows what she must do. Aboard this impressive and fearsome vessel is her opportunity to find new freedom—if she can survive it. The ghostly high seas are fraught with danger, from devious officers to murderous pirates. And lurking underneath it all is Scylla, the mythological monster set to destroy anyone who encroaches on her aquatic territory. Normally ready for anything, Rachel will have to find out if she's stronger than her enemies and the beasts that lie below the waves. And at the end of it all, can she pierce the veil of death and reach through to the world of the living, and to her parents?