The Salt Road That Fed the Dragon
A road built for trade has been feeding something far older than commerce.
The Salt Federation sends six witnesses south after a diplomatic delegation disappears along an ancient road carrying salt, iron, treaty gifts, and promises of profitable exchange. What begins as a recovery mission soon reveals a darker system beneath the trade: old tribute marks, missing names, hidden contracts, divided witnesses, and a lake-city whose survival has been purchased through debts no living person should be required to pay.
Leif records what others would rather leave unnamed. Edrin reads danger in road, stone, and distance. Halvard tests the difference between lawful keeping and possession. F olan listens to a living world altered by old bargains. Samira insists that truth must survive the people who profit from hiding it. And Kobalt Nine-Salt knows enough about bonds, locks, and being treated as property to recognize when a contract has learned to hunger.
At the end of the salt road waits a dragon-but the creature beneath the bargain is only part of the danger.
To survive, the travelers must prove not merely that the old system is cruel, but that generations of protection, trade, fear, and convenience have allowed it to continue.
The Salt Road That Fed the Dragon is Book One of The Black Salt Cycle, an old-world Gothic dark fantasy of dangerous roads, ancient bargains, moral consequence, dragons, witness, and the price of refusing a debt everyone else has agreed to call necessary.
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