THE BLACK TIDE
Sweeping, dark, and romantic, The Black Tide Trilogy is an epic fantasy of grief, love, and defiance—where the sea takes everything—and still demands more.
THE SALT IN OUR BLOOD
BOOK 1 OF THE BLACK TIDE TRILOGY
Long-buried secrets demand to be uncovered—but the truth could destroy a kingdom.
Sereia Gaiano was raised to inherit a kingdom that survives by sacrificing its own. Every year, the sea demands blood during the Black Tide. Every year, her people obey. As heir to Drakcultus, Sereia has been taught that their survival depends on it.
But as the anniversary of Silvamare’s destruction approaches, fear and grief spread through the realm—and cracks begin to form in everything Sereia has been taught to believe. Haunted by impossible visions and drawn to a masked stranger with dangerous questions of his own, Sereia enlists the few people she trusts to follow a trail through forgotten ruins and forbidden histories towards a revelation more dangerous than divine wrath.
In Drakcultus, questioning the gods is dangerous. Questioning the king is treason.
Killer of Kin. Feller of Kingdoms. The prophecy has haunted Sereia since childhood–and the closer she comes to the truth, the less it feels like a curse she can escape and the more it resembles a promise she may be forced to fulfill.
Sereia must decide what she’s willing to sacrifice to expose the lie–before the Black Tide rises again and drags everyone she loves into the depths.
THE ICE IN OUR VEINS
PREQUEL TO THE BLACK TIDE TRILOGY
She has always known the sea would take something from her. She never expected it to take everything.
Elin of Frostwake has always lived between two worlds: bound to the land by love, but called to the sea by blood.
When pirates capture her twin brother, Elin trades her selkie pelt for his life—and loses him anyway.
Stripped of her birthright and left with nothing but grief, she joins the Silvamari navy with one purpose: to hunt down the man who destroyed her life. But vengeance, she learns, cannot fill what grief has emptied.
Aboard the warship Maren, she is drawn into a kingdom already breaking beneath the weight of a merciless sea god–and becomes entangled in the lives of the warship’s crew, including its quiet lieutenant, Edward Graves.
As Elin fights, grieves, and learns what it means to keep living, she begins to understand that survival and love come with their own costs. And that some fates cannot be outrun.
THE TIDES IN OUR BLOOD
PREQUEL NOVELETTE
Each summer, Silvamare surrenders its own to the sea.
When doubt takes root in Prince Silas Blackwater’s heart, his unsent letters turn into confessions of faith, fear, and forbidden love.
Danger is circling and the Tide waits for no one.