Salt & Cypress

By RILEY COOPER

Salt & Cypress is a haunting work of historical gothic fiction, set in 1852 as famine drives thousands from Ireland's broken soil. Artemis Danger, a quiet young woman with nothing left to lose, boards a vessel for New York. But the sea claims her first, and she washes ashore not in America's promised land but in the swamps of Louisiana - a world as lush as it is treacherous.
There she encounters priestesses and prisoners, yellow fever and slave markets, kindness and cruelty braided inseparably together. New Orleans beckons with its music, its masks, and its men who may not be what they seem.
From the storm-wrecked Atlantic to the hidden courtyards of the Crescent City, Artemis must learn to survive not just hunger and grief, but the enchantments of those who would wield her spirit. A tale of survival, mysticism, and reinvention - Salt & Cypress is the story of a woman who crosses one ocean only to discover another, darker one waiting in its shadow.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FPD542ZT
• ISBN13: 9798263051792
• Release Date: August 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 206 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"