Salt and Surrender

Women rule the waves. The dead rule the shore. Love rules them both.

The Amaranthine Sea, Book One

Salt & Surrender

In 1720, the Caribbean belongs to women and monsters.

Captain Eleanor “Nell” Blackwood of the Royal Navy lives for duty, clean lines on a map, and a ship that runs like clockwork. Her vessel is her pride, her uniform a shield for the heart she keeps locked away. But when a brutal clash leaves her ship broken and her crew scattered, she wakes bound on the deck of a French privateer, staring up into the cold smile of its captain.

Marguerite “Marin” Devereaux has earned every whispered legend about La Sirène Noire. Clever, merciless, and beautiful in a way that feels like a warning, she should ransom the English captain or throw her overboard. Instead, she keeps Nell close where she can watch her, in a cabin with only one bed and nowhere to run.

Tempers flare. Hands stray where they shouldn’t. But when the Turned trap them on a fog-shrouded island, Nell and Marin must trust the one woman they most want to hate, and can’t stop wanting.

Storms are gathering. The Admiralty is hunting. On a sea that demands blood for every choice, one question remains:

What will they surrender first—their duty, or their hearts?