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High in the emerald canopy of Conagal, sixteen-year-old Thomas is a king of the air.
On an isolated island where forty souls live in homes woven into the branches, Thomas moves with the grace of a predator across walkways of salvaged netting. He speaks the melodic, bird-like language of Connie, his world defined by the swaying of timber and the secrets of the wind. To Thomas, the ground is a distant memory, and the vast ocean is a mystery-until a shattering storm brings the "Old World" screaming to his shores.
When Thomas finds seventeen-year-old Eliza and her sister Delaney washed up on the forbidden sands, he is mesmerized. Dressed in elegant silks and lace, they are like spirits from another realm. But their arrival is no miracle; it is a beacon.
Driven by desperation and high-society pride, the sisters' powerful parents, Daniel and Tess, launch a ruthless search party. Leading the charge is Anthony-Delaney's cold, ambitious fiancé-a man who views Conagal not as a sanctuary, but as a cage of savages to be dismantled.
When the steel of the British Navy meets the heights of the treetop kingdom, the skies bleed. In a brutal clash of cultures, the netting is slashed, the fires rise, and Thomas is brought low by Anthony's own hand.
Severely wounded and bound in cold iron, Thomas is dragged aboard the Seraphina, a captive prize destined for a world he cannot read and a society that wants him tamed. As the ship sets sail for America, Thomas must find a way to survive the cruelty of his captors-and the growing, forbidden bond he shares with the girl who was never supposed to find him.