The Navigator

<h1><strong>Inspired by the True Story of an American Legend</strong></h1><p></p><p>Ellen Prentiss can navigate a ship through blinding fog and treacherous shoals using nothing but mathematics and the stars. In 1841 that makes her indispensable to any captain-and utterly unacceptable to a world that believes women belong in parlors not on quarterdecks.</p><p></p><p>With the death of her captain father Ellen's lost her mentor ship and purpose and faces the suffocating prospect of a future trapped on land-until her childhood friend returns as Captain Perkins Creesy commander of a tea trader bound for China. </p><p></p><p>Perk desperately needs a navigator skilled enough to shave precious weeks off the route to Canton-and Ellen needs passage back to the life that defines her. But their shared past holds a betrayal that nearly destroyed them both and the sea offers no safe harbor for the secrets between them.</p><p></p><p>From the fog-shrouded shoals of Cape Henlopen to the cutthroat docks of New York Ellen must chart a course between the world's expectations and her own fierce ambitions. <em>The Navigator</em> is the story of a woman who dared to command the stars themselves-and refused to let anyone else determine her destiny.</p>