A sea goddess offered refuge. Three hundred years later, she's come to collect.In the 1700s, a slave escaped a sugar plantation, reached the sea half-dead, and made a deal with what answered.Leviathan named her price.He accepted on behalf of every slave who would come after him. He became the infamous Water Dog. His hidden coast became Seeps. His brotherhood became the Vapor League.And the debt waited.Three centuries later, Beckett Brooks captains the gang built on Water Dog's myth. Jonah Spout is its enforcer. Nile Kagera is its law. Together, they inherited a brotherhood and a story they never bothered to read.Nautica Brizo washed ashore at five, survived Seeps in silence, and vanished at seventeen. She returns at twenty-nine with a voice the sea has been training for three hundred years.Nautica is the form the debt has taken.The tide is in. And the sea remembers exactly what was stolen from her.Salt-Born is a standalone work of literary mythic fiction about feminine power, inherited violence, saltwater memory, and a reckoning overdue by three centuries. For readers haunted by the ancestral water-myth of Rivers Solomon's The Deep, and the Gothic dread of Silvia Moreno-Garcia's Mexican Gothic.This is not a romance, and no one is forgiven.The sea remembers what was taken.She waits to be paid.Content advisory: on-page sexual violence, violence and death, child abuse, and depictions of slavery and colonial violence. Read more