The Depths Between Us
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She was never meant to survive.
He was never meant to want the girl with saltwater in her veins.
Gael was born to salt and rebellion-a pirate with nothing left to lose but the ghosts chained to her name. Captured and dragged into the lion's den of an enemy she never wanted to face again, she expected torture. Execution. Maybe even silence.
What she didn't expect was the fire between them-the ice-eyed king who rules through fear and fascination, and sees through her defiance like smoke. He's all power, all control, and he doesn't just want obedience-he wants surrender.
But Gael doesn't bend.
She bargains.
For her crew.
For revenge.
For the sick thrill of playing with a man whose obsession might be the only thing keeping her alive.
Behind castle walls and veiled threats, their war begins in whispers and ends in blood. Secrets crackle beneath every gaze, every touch a question with no safe answer. She's hunting leverage. He's carving addiction. And neither of them knows which will break first: the game, or them.
In a court of kings and traitors, what's more dangerous-
The one who wants to ruin you?
Or the one who already has?
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