The Salt Crown's Orphans
An Epic Fantasy of Found Family

About this book:

Five strangers. One wreck. No mercy from the sea.

When the merchant brig *Sea Wraith* shatters on the Bleeding Shoals, a scholar's clerk, a scarred islander navigator, an outlaw shipwright, a trembling cartographer, and a disgraced nobleman with a silver rapier are the only survivors. Marooned on a reef that drowns with the tide, hunted by corsairs who slaughter castaways for sport, they have hours to turn splintered timber and salt pork into a vessel that can reach the Isle of the Weeping Bell. But the archipelago's waters hide older dangers than pirates: iron galleons that hunt like wolves, sirens that blind rather than sing, and a sovereign's fleet massing for war. To survive, five people who trust no one must become a crew—or they'll be the next bones bleaching on the coral.

From the razor reefs of the Obsidian Isles to the smoking gunports of Cinder Bay, *The Salt Crown's Orphans* charts a voyage where found family is forged in hurricane and betrayal, where a ledger-keeper's calculations weigh as much as a shipwright's adze, and where the crown they're all running from might be the only thing that can save them. Set sail for an epic fantasy where the sea doesn't just separate nations—it decides who's worthy to rule them.