Where Crowns Go to Drown
The war has reached the sea. Winning it may cost Marius and Tarezh the freedom they have spent everything protecting.
Veressan warships are advancing into waters they were never meant to control, armed with technology capable of corrupting the ancient living systems beneath the ocean.
Captain Marius Calder and the crew of the Wayward Mercy are badly outnumbered, but surface warfare is one of the few places where the undersea coalition needs what a pirate captain can offer. The more authority Marius is asked to accept, the more dangerous the old belief becomes that enough control can keep everyone he loves alive.
Tarezh faces a different danger. His body is already entwined with the ancient network, and every new crisis demands more from abilities no one fully understands. As the systems beneath the sea begin behaving in impossible ways, his growing connection could help save entire communities-or make him exactly the kind of living instrument he once escaped.
Meanwhile, independent settlements must decide how much power they are willing to surrender in order to survive together. False emergencies spread through damaged routes. Naval pressure tightens above them. And somewhere in the deepest water, something ancient and alive has begun to answer.
To end the war, Marius and Tarezh will have to find a way to coordinate ships, cities, bodies, and powers without letting necessity become ownership. Because defeating the enemy will mean very little if survival requires becoming the thing they have been fighting all along.
Where Crowns Go to Drown is the final book in The Saltwrought Sea Trilogy, an adult M/M dark nautical romantasy featuring an established human/nonhuman monster romance, pirate found family, naval warfare, permanent body transformation, undersea politics, ocean horror, ancient living magic, explicit intimacy, and a hard-won HEA.
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