The Salt Crown Conspiracy
A Tale of Rival Isles and Ruthless Hearts

About this book:

When Captain Maeve Vance hauls the bloated body of the High King from the reef, she expects salvage rights—not a ledger of regicide sewn into his breeches. The proof is damning: Duke Morvath murdered the monarch to seize the Salt Crown, and the exiled Prince Thomas is the only man with the blood and the fury to stop him. But Thomas has spent years rotting on the Gray Shelf, commanding three hundred broken sailors and a hatred as cold as the northern current. Maeve has a fast ship, twenty-four guns, and no love for kings. Together, they’re the only threat the Duke never saw coming.

From the shark-infested channels of the Corsair's Reef to the gilded knives of the High Council, *The Salt Crown Conspiracy* charts a course through treachery, mutiny, and war. Maeve and Thomas trade blows and bargains in equal measure, each knowing the other would sell them out the moment the tide turns—unless the noose tightens around both their necks first. With a crew of cutthroats, a prince who thinks he’s a god, and a conspiracy that rots the empire from the top down, the only certainty is blood in the water.

Sharp, salt-stung, and ruthless, this is high-seas intrigue at its darkest: a throne won not by birthright, but by powder, nerve, and the willingness to burn everything down to rule the ashes.