Long before the first Texans declared a Texas, a ragtag group of sailors were left on the alien shore of a new world. Three of those men-and one intrepid woman-walked across present-day Texas, traversing the uncharted nation to reach fishing vessels off the coast of Nova Scotia, a distance of some three thousand miles. History records this journey made in an amazing eleven months Susun de Castro's story is a fictionalized account of the actual journey of David Ingram, and takes her from the court of Queen Elizabeth I aboard the flagship of John Hawkins, the queen's slave trader, as they engage in piracy, slave trading, and battles with Spain. Through it all, there is the ever-present threat of her being sold into slavery. The Journey Moon is this story, of action and adventure on the high seas and in a new world. And it is the story of a love so strong it reached out across seas, over continents, and through time.