The Bone-Tide Empire: A Dark Fantasy of the Deep

By Jaxon SCOTT

The sea does not forget its dead.

And the empire has been building with their bones.

Pyrra Casken knows the salvage laws. She knows what can be claimed, what must be left, and what happens to crews who ask too many questions.

But when her ship recovers a forbidden piece of dragonbone from the deep, the impossible becomes horrifyingly clear.

The bone is warm.

The empire calls it lawful salvage. The courts call it progress. The navy calls it necessary.

Pyrra calls it murder.

Across the capital, Joss serves the system that keeps the empire alive, until altered records, hidden reports, and a living creature imprisoned inside the machinery of power force him to question everything he has signed, defended, and obeyed.

As storms gather and the sea begins to answer back, Pyrra and Joss are pulled into a conspiracy older than the harbor walls. The empire has not been harvesting relics. It has been breaking something alive.

And now the dead are not the only ones rising.

The Bone-Tide Empire is a dark nautical fantasy thriller about buried crimes, living relics, imperial lies, and the terrible cost of building a civilization on stolen bones.

Perfect for readers who want:

A suspenseful sea-dark fantasy with horror-thriller tensionAn imperial conspiracy built into ships, courts, and citiesLiving dragonbone, ancient creatures, and forbidden salvageMorally complex rebels, officials, captains, and witnessesA high-stakes final act where evidence, survival, and mercy all collideAtmospheric worldbuilding with a sharp commercial thriller engine

Some empires fall when armies rise.

This one may fall because the sea remembers what was taken.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H7FHCLHY
• ISBN13: 9798185345719
• Release Date: July 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 476 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.5" x 8.5"