The tale of a girl growing up on an island (told from her perspective)with a family who are not who they seem. Her mother is a healer but who is her father? All she knows is her father walked off a ship long ago. The same ship has returned to the island and the crew have tales to tell of who her father was in distant lands but she only wants to know one thing. Will he be leaving with the ship? Yet worse events occur when her father fights with slavers, will he live through the night?