BTS: The Sea & Her Serpents

Overnight, Layla Julian's days have become numbered. Though she's acknowledged as both Lady and temptress, the scrawling ink that's appeared at random on her body threatens to steal the title she's earned by blood: the Serpent Whisperer.

It doesn't help that none who've received the mark of the Dead Man's Chase returned to tell the tale. It's also of little benefit to run from the tattoo, as she has no intention of dying. She's worked much too hard for this life, built too great of an empire after resurfacing from depths she never imagined possible. The answer, then, is to do as she's always done--take what won't be given so easily, no matter the cost.

Something ominous brews within the mist that lingers over the Crystal Sea, and the people of Windermere whisper about it where the sea breeze cannot carry their conversation. But she's never been the silent type, and she especially can't be when the tides deliver a new mission, a colorful crew, and a pirate that endangers the cruel exterior which has made her the finest captain the waves have ever seen.

The other thing no one else seems to understand? She's certainly not their hero.

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*BTS pirate au
*villainous romance
*English