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The Salt Line
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 18 2026
Pages: 210
Weight: 0.63
Height: 0.48 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In the rain-drowned industrial harbour of Oakhaven, survival means keeping your head down. Maeve arrives carrying the charred memories of a Spokane house fire she barely survived, determined to remain invisible. But in a dying cannery town where the mist smells of diesel, wet pine, and stagnant salt, isolation leaves a distinct scent, and Jules recognises it immediately.
Magnetic, volatile, and fiercely protective, Jules draws Maeve into a clandestine circle alongside two fellow outcasts, Cassie and Talon. In the flooded sub-basement of St. Perpetua's, an abandoned Catholic reform school perched on the cliffs, they uncover an ancient manuscript teaching them to draw the line: a ritual practice that channels repressed rage and blood into intoxicating power. At first, the magic grants everything they crave: swift retribution against their tormentors and an unshakeable sisterhood.
Yet the power is no gift. It is the Rot-Weave, a parasitic subterranean force that rewrites their nervous systems and binds their minds into an invasive telepathic web. Every ritual demands an equal toll in sanity, memory, and flesh. As Cassie begins to fracture under the weight of foreign thoughts and Talon seeks an escape, an ancient entity takes root behind Jules's eyes, twisting her devotion into a predatory hunger.
Trapped between an ancient parasite and the girl who made her feel seen, Maeve must confront the true cost of belonging before the tide pulls them both into the deep.
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