A gothic fantasy adventure with slow-burn romance.
Captain Silas Blackmoor has spent years carrying kings, smugglers and liars across treacherous seas aboard the Widow's Wake. In Crowhaven, corruption runs deeper than the harbour, and when a routine commission uncovers an ancient relic, the city's powerful guild will kill to try and bury the truth.Forced into the service of ambitious rulers and desperate nobles, Silas and his crew are drawn into a chain of impossible quests stretching from haunted coastlines and forgotten swamps to frozen mountain passes and burning deserts. Each victory reveals another lie. Every alliance demands a debt to be paid.
Amid betrayal, bloodshed, an uneasy romance with the fiercely independent Silvia slowly becomes something neither of them expected. But as kingdoms edge towards war and an ancient darkness stirs beneath the fog, trust may prove more dangerous than any blade.
Some fires don't warm.
They consume.