Shagoon, a Quest for Heritage

Ana lives in a California mission with her adopted siblings, wishing she could know someone like a mother one day. When she meets a healer of the Ohlone people who could fulfill that role, the mission sends her off to her birthplace in Alaska, a place she's never known.

As she sails with British Captain Vancouver, Master Joseph Whidbey and Lieutenant Peter Puget on their annual mapping tour of the Pacific, she meets a young man on ship who is returning home to Hawaii. When he pleads with her to stay in Hawaii with him, promising love and a home, she is torn, forced to choose between the only love she's ever known and the possibility of finding her mother in Alaska. Her choice could send her into an 18th century indigenous culture that could be dangerous, especially to her.