Wren Cole crews salvage out of Saltwind and works the dice floors when the coin runs thin. The sea taught her the one law she trusts: you are worth what you can take and fight for and outlive. Nothing comes owed to you. Nothing owns you.
Then a night at the table goes impossibly right — and the luck that has kept her alive since she was small turns out to be the thing that can find her.
A multi-POV epic fantasy of salvage and secrets, found family, and a name someone killed to bury.
Thomas Alton writes fantasy from a house outside Chicago, about as far from the sea as a person can reasonably get — which may be the point. Raised on dice, doorstop novels and the maps in the front, he wrote The Tell of the Tide when the world stopped flying and left him, at last, with time.
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