Saltwater Chains

Selene Marrow has spent her entire life within the walls of her father's estate, her world defined by guarded gardens and the quiet safety of books she was never meant to question. Among the stories she devours, one name is always missing, though the fear it carries is not.

The Black Wake.

A ship that should not exist. A captain whose name is never spoken.

When the Black Wake finally arrives at her shores, Selene is taken-not by chance, but by something far older than her understanding. Captain Lucien Vex does not speak of mercy, nor does he lie. He only watches, as if she is not a prisoner... but a claim long deferred.

Far from everything she has ever known, Selene begins to unravel the truth of her life: the silence of her father, the bargains made in shadows, and the impossible connection between a governor's daughter and the most feared man to ever sail the sea.

And on the Black Wake, love does not arrive gently. It arrives like a tide that refuses to recede.