This enduring tale of independence and family is an unconventional love story with a strong female lead and a pirate with a sensitive side, written by New Zealand's leading children's writer and illustrated by one of Japan's foremost children's illustrators. The fierce little woman lived in a house at the end of a jetty. She knitted socks in blue and green wool to sell to sailors who had got their feet wet. But when there were no ships at her jetty, she was quite alone. One stormy day, a pirate came to the house on the jetty. He stood on his toes, and starting tap-tap-tapping on the window... After a battle of words through the jetty trapdoor, these two windswept heroes find they are suited after all in a warm story of a carefree family.

Country of Origin: New Zealand The fierce little woman lived in a house at the end of a jetty. She knitted socks in blue and green wool, to sell to sailors who had got their feet wet. But when there were no ships at her jetty, she was quite alone. One stormy day, a pirate came to the house on the jetty. He stood on his toes, and started tap-tap-tapping on the window...

Thrust back in time with Mateo, a dangerous but sexy pirate, Catherine struggles to keep her world upright as wicked storms push them around the high seas. While fighting savage Indians, his superstitious crew and different time lines that confuse the hell out of both of them, Catherine is drawn more and more to Mateo. And the sex is pretty hot, too. But they both need to return to their own times. Can they find a way to save themselves and stay together, or forever be torn apart?

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Collection of original stories and poems by a New Zealand writer.