Daughter of Salt

Yelrah Gale has spent her life hidden on the remote island of Qimm-alone but not lonely, watched by ghosts and guided by the practical training her mother left her.
Out in the wider world, people fear her face, her past, and the strange, dangerous air that surrounds her.
On Qimm, she doesn't have to be anything at all.

That ends the moment her mother returns with a ship full of secrets... and a command Yelrah cannot refuse.

Ectra Gale-smuggler, tactician, and dealer in the forbidden-has decided it's time for her daughter to enter the family business. Now Yelrah must leave the island for the crowded imperial city of the Galen, carrying a mask, her sharpened instincts, and a crew of unusual specialists-strange people with stranger talents, each who just get odder and odder.

But the world is shifting. Magic is resurfacing. And powerful men are ready to destroy anyone who stands in their way.

As Yelrah is pulled into a maze of risky alliances and hidden agendas, she must decide whether to follow the path her mother laid out...
or carve out one of her own.