A wonderful book for all ages that like magical adventures sailing the high seas with witches and wizards and mythical creatures as shipmates! A dramatic dystopian fantasy about a living ship who escapes a locked down quarantined port during the black plague to make her way to a great ship graveyard far north where she will transition to a different spiritual plane. The problem is, the whole world wants her dying timbers and it seems they will stop at nothing to get them, dead or alive! Governments and bankers want her rare wood to increase their wealth and power. Alchemists, dark sorcerers and necromancers want her very soul to make zombie boats out of her decaying hull. A powerful water wizard stands in their way and has allied himself with the ship and a secret society that is trying to create their own alternate economy as well as put an end to the injustices of the current regime.Two young boys get caught up in this sword and sorcery game of thrones and one becomes a cabin boy and the other a navigator's apprentice to help crew the enchanted wood ship called Helix.This evolving magical mystery is about how a diverse variety of memorable and often times, humorous characters came together to take on the world, as well as dark wizards and a murderous prates guild is the basis for the first book in the series.