Salt and Ash: The Thalassocrat Saga-Prequel

By Alli De Vare

THE PREQUEL: SALT AND ASH

Before he was the Thalassocrat, he was a boy named Tarkon who knew the taste of mountain snow and the smell of goat wool. Salt and Ash is the anatomy of a trauma. It begins in the thin air of the Taurus Mountains, where the Roman tax collectors turn a village into a ledger of flesh.

It is the story of the grain pit; the darkness that smelled of moldy wheat; and the wet hiss of the branding iron as it claimed his father's skin. We follow Tarkon as he descends from the stone to the water, trading his name for a curved knife and his heart for a horizon. It is a visceral descent into the pirate hive of Olympos. It is the memory of a girl with sea-glass eyes who died in a red alley. By the end, the boy is ash. Only Arion remains.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GPP9NCVS
• ISBN13: 9798249362508
• Release Date: February 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"