Only the Ocean

Kel Crow is fifteen and lives in a waterlogged world. She shares nothing with her family except blood, and she has a heart defect that could kill her at any time.

She has a plan to get out. She will stow away on a ship, kidnap a girl, and trade her to buy passage to America and a life-saving operation. As the story opens, Kel is rowing a boat with her captive, Rose, who tells her that everything, absolutely everything, is her fault. Plans seldom go the way they are meant to.

Only the Ocean is a fierce but tender story about survival, courage in dark circumstances, and the loss of innocence.