Black Sails Over a Dying Sun

By Matthew Petchinsky

When the sea begins to bleed, the world remembers its oldest betrayal.

In Black Sails Over a Dying Sun, the Fractured Cities stand on the edge of annihilation as bone-forged armadas rise from the trench and graveborn sea-beasts tear through the harbor. Elowen, bearer of the fractured crown, must confront a forgotten pact that once bound her bloodline to the deep. What was believed to be sacrifice was, in truth, dominion-and the ocean has come to collect its debt.

Beside her stands Cassian, last of the silver-bound monster hunters whose lineage was forged to kill what rises from below. But love complicates legacy, and survival demands more than steel. As tides shatter stone and war brews beyond the horizon, Elowen must claim a throne carved not from gold-but from tidebone.

Gothic, epic, and psychologically devastating, this dark fantasy horror blends maritime terror with twisted political intrigue and heart-wrenching romance. The sea is not merely an enemy. It is memory. It is hunger. It is witness.

And under black sails blocking a dying sun, power is no longer inherited.

It is seized.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GNWCNQTS
• ISBN13: 9798295634437
• Release Date: February 2026
• Publisher: Apophis Enterprises LLC
• Length: 108 Pages
• Weight: 0.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"