Blood Tide of Marasa: A Standalone Romantasy

By Scarlett Monroe

Some debts are paid in blood. Some are paid in everything else.

Sera is a blood-navigator - one of the few who can read the ocean's secrets by pressing her scarred hands to a ship's hull and mapping the world in ink mixed with her own veins. She doesn't sail for glory. She sails to survive, staying one step ahead of the Colonial Guild and the enforcer who's been hunting her for years.

When Cayo de Montera - former Guild hound, current captain of the notorious Maribel Noir - offers her a contract to chart the deadliest passage in the known islands, Sera has two very good reasons to refuse: she doesn't trust him, and she doesn't trust herself around him.

But the job leads to Mar Vert, a place where the charts go blank and ships simply vanish. At its heart waits a blood-spirit rumored to hold the power to rewrite the ledger - to erase every debt-mark carved into every wrist in the archipelago. Including the ones Sera carries in her bones.

To reach it, she'll have to navigate a world that wants her dead, a storm-cursed captain who keeps saving her life, and the growing, terrifying certainty that some things are worth bleeding for.

Perfect for fans of slow-burn romance, morally complex heroines, and lush world-building rooted in Caribbean-inspired mythology.

Blood Tide of Marasa features:

Enemies-to-lovers slow burn with earned heatA fiercely independent heroine scarred by survivalLush Caribbean-inspired fantasy world with original blood magicA dangerous ocean journey with a crew worth dying forColonial resistance, found family, and hard-won freedomStandalone complete story with a deeply satisfying HEA

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GWHFDYD1
• ISBN13: 9798255294114
• Release Date: April 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"