Dido Twite, the scrappy heroine of Black Hearts in Battersea and Nightbirds on Nantucket, is on her wildest adventure yet. On the way back to London aboard the British man-o-war ship, the Thrush, Dido and crew are summoned to the aid of the tyrannical Queen of New Cumbria. Her island is an infernal place, Dido decides, after noticing a suspicious lack of girl children and hearing rumors of birds that carry off men, and fish that eat human flesh. But a neighboring king has stolen the queen's lake and is holding it for ransom. Now it's up to Dido and the crew to face fire, flood, execution, and wild beasts to get the lake back—or else.
—from the dust jacket
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