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'Ship Beyond Time' Sails Through The Centuries

Heidi Heilig's duology, The Girl From Everywhere and the new The Ship Beyond Time, follows a girl who travels between worlds and times on her father's tall ship, trying to save her mother's life.
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Last year, Heidi Heilig sailed onto the YA scene with her debut novel The Girl From Everywhere, introducing us to Nix, who uses maps to travel between times and worlds on the tall ship Temptation. Now we can journey with her through the sequel, The Ship Beyond Time, in search of an answer to the classic question of time travel: Are we the masters of our own fate, or are we simply treading the path of destiny?

Nix has lived her whole life aboard the with her

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