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The Salt Wife: A Dark Folk Tale of Grief and Vengeance and the Sea
Paperback
Series: Devoted Monsters, Book 2
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Nov 26 2025
Pages: 216
Weight: 0.48
Height: 0.49 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
The sea took his family. Then it sent him a wife.
Rhode Island, 1817.
Thomas Greeves has spent two years alone at the edge of the Atlantic, tending a lighthouse that could not save his wife and children from death. Beyond its beam lie treacherous rocks, pirate coves, and wreckers who murder shipwreck survivors for their cargo. Thomas keeps the light burning, asks no questions, and waits for grief to finish hollowing him out.
Then a storm leaves a naked woman tangled in the seaweed below his home.
She is bruised, freezing, and barely alive. She cannot remember her name, so Thomas gives her his dead wife's. But Catherine is not human. She swims beneath winter waters for hours. Her teeth were made for tearing flesh. Her hunger cannot be satisfied with ordinary food.
And she has chosen Thomas as her mate.
Each night, Catherine returns to his bed. Each morning, another animal disappears from the coast. When the wreckers begin hunting the creature responsible, Thomas must decide what matters more: the lives of violent men or the monster who has made him feel alive again.
Because Catherine does not understand mercy.
She understands hunger, blood, and possession.
And anyone who threatens what belongs to her will be dragged beneath the waves.
The Salt Wife is an explicit historical folk-horror novella of maritime isolation, monstrous desire, bloody vengeance, and the terrible things grief will invite into an empty home.
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