The sea chose her. The secrets will break her. Every dawn, the tide delivers glass bottles to Maelyn's feet-confessions from strangers who would rather let the sea carry their guilt than bear it themselves. As a Reader, it's her curse to open them. Each one steals a piece of her soul. But when the blue bottle returns-the one that devours her faster than the rest-it costs her the only person she loves. Now she'll stop at nothing to hunt down the sender... even if it means stowing away to the walled city of Marisol under a stolen name. There she meets Saul. Infuriating. Magnetic. Dangerous. A sailor sworn to protect the city-and to guard his own secrets as fiercely as the sea guards its depths. But as storms gather and corruption rises, their fates twist together in ways neither of them can escape. To save the city, Maelyn will have to choose: shatter the confession and take her revenge... or read it, and pay the price with what's left of her soul. For fans of slow-burn enemies-to-lovers, deadly secrets, and lush, ocean-drenched worlds-this is the first book in the Salt Chronicles.