Fangs above, fathoms below—Isla Hart walks the tide line of this haunting monster romance.
Two monsters want her.
One has her heart.
The other wants her soul.
And Dr. Isla Hart isn’t sure which will break first.
After surviving a mutiny and recovering the legendary Phoebalith, Isla thought she and the vampire crew of The Nocturne had earned a little peace. But when the artifact is stolen and her blood begins to change, she finds herself haunted by a cephalogod older than myth—one who whispers to her in the dark, calling her his Ink’s Courage. His chosen. His. He sings to her in silence, the echo in every hollow place, patient as the sea and twice as jealous.
As the mission spirals deeper, Marina is pulled into dangers no one saw coming. Caspian holds the crew together with a wrench in one hand, sarcasm in the other, and absolutely no idea how he became the responsible one. But the Phoebalith is not done with any of them. It stirs beneath the surface, reshaping what it touched. And not even Sebastian is beyond its reach.
Cryptic transmissions suggest the mystery of her father’s disappearance is still waiting to be solved—and Inky may know more than he’s letting on. But even gods can bleed, and Isla isn’t sure she can protect him from what’s coming. Now Isla is hunted on all sides. Enemies from Sebastian’s past resurface. A rival vampire submarine stalks the seas, led by a monster-hunting captain.
As the ocean awakens inside her, Isla must choose between the vampire commander who would bleed the world for her… and the abyssal god who marked her.
The tide is rising. Isla is changing.
And what the sea touches, it binds: body, blood, and soul.
Blood and Brine is a gothic romantic fantasy full of oceanic secrets, fangs, ancient devotion, and enemies-to-lovers tension.
