Daughter of the Reef

A chief's daughter is storm-tossed onto the strange land of Tahiti in a novel that "shows that the ancient South Pacific can be a dangerous paradise" (Publishers Weekly).

In the first volume of the Ancient Tahiti series, Tepua, the daughter of a chief sails from her coral atoll home toward her planned, and ritually mandated, marriage. But she never reaches her destination because a violent storm damages her vessel and leaves her stranded on the shores of Tahiti, a land previously unknown to...