The Child the Sea Kept: A Novella

By Alice N. Smith

A silent child. A pirate captain. A sea that should have taken them both.

When Captain Elias Varric finds a young girl clinging to wreckage after a violent storm, his crew urges him to leave her behind. She has no name, no family, and no fear anyone can see. Against their warnings, Varric brings her aboard and gives her a name.

Eva.

Raised beneath the black flag, Eva grows up among sailors, thieves, killers, and outcasts. She learns the language of sails and storms, knives and blood, loyalty and betrayal. Some of the crew pity her. Some protect her. Some believe she is an omen the sea never meant to release.

But Eva is always watching.

As the years pass, the quiet child rescued from the waves becomes something harder to understand-and far more dangerous to underestimate.

Dark, atmospheric, and character-driven, The Child the Sea Kept is a pirate novella about survival, found family, fear, loyalty, and the making of someone the sea refused to claim.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H66TQQW4
• ISBN13: 9798181913172
• Release Date: June 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 156 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"