The Salt and the Spark

A Slow Burn Gothic Paranormal Romance

von E R Draven

118 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

The bond that saved the Ferryman is unmaking the Warden who holds it.

Maren Greywick paid for her drowned town's peace with her own life, a little more of it every day. Six weeks after she shut the tear in the world, she is fading, coming apart at the edges, cold light passing through a hand that arrives a half-second late. Salt alone holds a bond. It does not sustain the woman who carries it. Every Warden in the old book learned that, and every one of them faded and died alone.

But Maren is not going to fade quietly. Warmth given one way drains a Warden dry. Warmth given both ways, she and the Ferryman are about to discover, does the thing the old book only ever whispered. It mends. It holds. It burns long enough, perhaps, to outlast even the cold. The spark. The small warm treason of the heart that no Warden ever caught and lived to use.

She will need it. A rival Warden has come to the coast, a woman who does not hold the crossed but cages them, who keeps what she cannot love in iron and glass and calls it saving. A lighthouse keeper carries a forty-year grief the sea has never let him set down. A selkie learns the warmth of a living hand. And far under the harbor, a god that should have stayed asleep has begun to stir.

Because the hardest lesson of the cold coast is the one that costs the most. The way to keep the thing you love is to be willing, at the very last, to let it go.

Perfect for readers who love:

◆ A fated bond that costs the one who holds it everything

◆ A century-dead Ferryman and the Warden who will not fade

◆ A rival who cages the crossed instead of loving them

◆ Selkies, drowned-world folklore, and a waking god

◆ Slow-burn warmth built against a cold and hungry sea

Salt holds what must be held. The spark is the thing the salt cannot account for.

Book 2 of the Saltbound series. Best read after The Calling Tide.

• ISBN: 9798185126042
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.07.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp