The Salt Bride

Neem never knew her father.
When he died - hours before the race that shattered her future - she thought the past could finally stay buried.
But grief, guilt, and a desperate need for escape send her across the ocean to a remote island in the farthest reaches of the Maldives, the place where she was born - and where she was first cursed.

The island is beautiful, untouched by time, its shores glittering like broken glass.
But beneath the surface, something stirs.

A promise made long ago - sealed with blood and forbidden magic - is beginning to unravel.
And the creature her father once enslaved has been waiting.
Not for vengeance.
For her.

As the villagers grow sick, as the sea rises hungrily toward the land, Neem finds herself torn between a quiet, human love - and the haunting pull of something vast, ancient, and merciless.

On an island drowning in its own forgotten sins, Neem must choose:
Fight the fate her bloodline bound her to - or become the bride of the deep.