The Salt-Bound Season of You

About this book

In the tide-locked city of Vessara, the moon pulls human emotion into visible weather: sorrow falls as silver rain, rage cracks as dry heat lightning. Marisol Kett, thirty-one, sun-darkened and salt-braided, is a Stormbreaker — one of the licensed few who drink other people's feeling-storms into their own bodies to keep the streets navigable. After a decade of carrying borrowed hearts, she can no longer tell which hungers are hers, and her mouth has forgotten how to shape the word want. When the Aurelan delegation arrives to negotiate a border treaty, Marisol is assigned to shadow their lead envoy, Seren Aldavar: sharp-jawed, quiet-handed, and registering as nothing — no storm, no drizzle, not even a breeze. As someone begins manufacturing feeling-storms to sabotage the talks, and the evidence points with suspicious neatness toward Aurela, Marisol's memories of the last month begin to shimmer and contradict themselves. Her one reliable skill — reading others — stutters exactly where it matters most. To save the peace, she must decide whether Seren is Vessara's enemy or its only honest man, and whether the slow, salt-bright desire building between them is love, or just one more storm she absorbed and mistook for her own heart.

Book details

Genres:

Spicy Romance, Romantic Fantasy, Fantasy, Mystery

Language:

en

Published:

2026-07-22

Content rating:

PG-13