Her Salt-Blood Crown

He burned her mother's fleet. He chained her to the mast of his flagship. He is the only man she can't bring herself to drown. Maren was raised to be the drowned regent's heir. She was nineteen when Admiral Kestrel's fires took her harbor, her ships, and every hope of a crown. Now she's on his deck in chains, and the old island magic on her tongue is more than willing to pay him back. It doesn't take. He laughs at her. He keeps her alive. He keeps her fed. He keeps her close enough that she starts knowing things about him no hostage should know, and by the time they reach the southern islands she has stopped being able to tell the difference between an enemy and an anchor. But the woman who started the war is still alive, still crowned, and still wants them both dead. A dark enemies to lovers fantasy romance set on the tides, for readers who want their slow burn to come with salt and fire.