The Salt King's Innocent Bride

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# Back of Book Summary
## The Salt King's Innocent Bride
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He takes three women to bed the night he takes her world.
Evander Voss is the Devil of the Sea. The Salt King of Ironwake, a gothic city built on the hull of a ship so vast it swallows the horizon, one of thousands of floating cities that run the ocean's trade routes and answer to no law but their own. His world is dark iron and salt water and the particular freedom of people who built their civilization on ships that never stop moving. He runs Ironwake with absolute control, absolute patience, and no apologies for either.
Sanna Ivory Von Vellacourt comes from the other world entirely. The land masses rising from the sea are few and precious and old, their cities built from white stone and climbing red flowers, their people defined by bloodlines that go back centuries and social codes so deeply ingrained they have stopped feeling like rules and started feeling like gravity. In Redspire, everything is white and crimson and composed. Everything is exactly as it should be.
Sanna has spent twenty-three years learning how to look like she agrees.
When an ancient debt pulls the Von Vellacourt name into the orbit of the most feared ship city lord on the ocean, Sanna steps into a negotiation she doesn't fully understand to protect the sister she loves. She signs something she shouldn't have. And now she is standing on Ironwake's deck with her trunks from home and her silver crown and her composure intact, married by contract to a man with glowing eyes and no interest in her comfort, about to discover exactly how far from white stone she has come.
He knows she isn't the one the debt named. He enforces it anyway.
He is not going to soften for her. She is not going to break the way he expects.
What comes between them is not a love story. Not yet. First it is a war — fought in silence and proximity and the particular slow cruelty of two people who have every reason to hate each other and cannot stop watching each other anyway. He takes other women. She survives Ironwake one day at a time. His world strips away everything her world made her, and underneath it something harder begins to grow.
*The Salt King's Innocent Bride* is a dark fantasy romance for readers who want the heat explicit, the slow burn real, and the love earned through blood and salt and everything it costs two people to finally stop pretending they don't need each other.
Some mistakes are worth making.
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## Content & Trigger Warnings
*The Salt King's Innocent Bride* is an adult dark romance intended for mature readers. It contains explicit content and dark themes throughout. Please read with care.
**s****l Content**
Explicit s****l scenes, including group s****l encounters, public s****l acts, non-consensual s****l situation (public consummation before witnesses), and dubious consent dynamics throughout.
**Violence & Dark Themes**
Graphic violence including combat, torture, and death. Depictions of cruelty and brutality. Power imbalance in a forced marriage dynamic. Emotional manipulation and psychological distress.
**Relationship Dynamics**
Forced marriage. Infidelity and open relationship dynamics on the part of the male lead. Enemies to lovers with sustained hostility. A relationship that causes genuine harm to both parties before it becomes love.
**Additional Warnings**
Political conspiracy and betrayal. Class-based discrimination and prejudice. Grief and loss. Reference to pregnancy in a dangerous situation.
This list may be expanded as the story develops. If you have specific triggers not listed here, please read with care.

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