Salt and Chains

The Drowned Court always collects. Wren Halloran chose the pirate's ship. She chose the storm-marked captain with lightning in his scars and ruin in his past. But choosing him was the easy part. Keeping him is going to cost her everything she has left. Soren Blacktide is forgetting. Every storm he ever summoned took a memory as its price, and now the oldest debts are coming due. The Court wants what it is owed, and it does not care whose name is on the bargain. So Wren does the only thing she can: she steps into his place and swears a tide-mark of her own, binding herself to the deep and to him in ways she does not yet understand. The mark lets her hear storms coming. It steals her sleep. And when the Court's collector boards the Stormwake in dead calm, she will have to pay in the only currency the deep accepts: memory. Her father's laugh. His hands on the rope. The one good thing she has left from the life before. Touch her and die, the captain says. But the Court is not afraid of him. Salt and Chains is the second book in the Tidebound series, a dark pirate romantasy of bargains and belonging, explicit heat, and a love tested by the oldest debts in the Reach. The slow burn of Saltmark ignites here.