Lee, Tanith

Artemesia finally escapes the prim and proper world of finishing schools and sets out to win her mother's title as pirate queen of the seas until she meets her match against Goldie Girl, the treacherous captain of the pirate ship "Enemy.".

Tanaquil's half-sister, Lizra, commands her to use her skills to make a steam-powered unicorn move and to help her in her brutal conquests. Tanaquil must obey or risk Lizra's wrath.

With her talent for mending things, sixteen-year-old Tanaquil reconstructs a unicorn which, brought to life, lures her away from her desert fortress home and her sorceress mother to find a city by the sea and the way to a perfect world.