Time travel, swordplay, and romance combine in an original high-seas adventure from New York Times bestseller Carrie Vaughn. But a pirate's life is bloody and brief, and as Jill learns about the dark magic that brought her there, she forms a desperate scheme to get home - one that risks everything in a duel to the death with a villainous pirate captain. The video (file) shared on this page is submitted by a user who claims. Stranded in the past and surrounded by strangers, she is forced to sign on as crew. The broken tip holds secrets, though, and it transports Jill through time to the deck of a pirate ship. When she finds a corroded sword piece on a Caribbean beach, she is instantly intrigued and pockets it as her own personal treasure. Sixteen-year-old Jill has fought in dozens of fencing tournaments, but she has never held a sharpened blade. In Steel by Carrie Vaughn, swords and fencing take center stage. Fencing is a beautiful sport, evoking that scene in The Princess Bride when Wesley and Inigo Montoya are fighting. A thousand people would step over it and think it trash, but not her. Book Review: Steel by Carrie Vaughn Im not gonna lie, I find swords to be pretty badass weapons. It was a slender length of rusted steel, tapered to a point at one end and jagged at the other, as if it had broken.
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