Books by B T Higgins

Daily survival is a battle for Raykin Smythe, a fifteen-year-old cabin boy aboard a Sardonian slave ship. For years, he has learned to stay a second or two ahead of trouble. When the ten-ship armada raids the island of Rocky Cove for slaves, they are decimated by a little, pale girl named Minty Nothingmore. The Captain and the crew are now dead! Raykin flees for his life with a handful of the surviving raiders. They must sail The Last Red Ship to Sardonia and tell the king of a weapon so great it might threaten the whole empire. Getting home won't be easy with storms, mutinies, starvation, and sea battles threatening.

During the plague of 1262, Minty Nothingmore contracts the Pox at her birth. Her mother dies from it only hours later, singing lullabies for Minty to her last breath. The ancient woman named Granny Shin holds a milk-soaked rag for Minty to suckle. No one else expects the infant to survive. No baby with plague had before, but Minty Nothingmore is no ordinary baby. She lives. Granny sends Minty to the orphanage with a letter that will shake the world and save every person on the little island of Rocky Cove. 12 years later...Minty Nothingmore, age twelve, requires only a few things to be happy. Order. Cleanliness. Predictability. Unfortunately, she lives in an orphanage with thirteen other children and Mr. Blick, who doesn''t understand the complexities of a broom. She works all day to keep everything dusted, swept, mopped and perfectly aligned.She knows nothing of the empires, pirates, slave-traders, plagues and hurricanes that threaten her little, organized world. Soon, the dangerous world will close in around her. Hopefully, the world survives. The earth is filled with a million islands. Rocky Cove is just a small, insignificant one that doesn''t show up on any of the maps. Soon, it will become the most important of all.