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Saltblood
Paperback
Publisher: Guy Roberts
Published: Sep 7 2025
Pages: 328
Weight: 0.84
Height: 0.73 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Saltblood
In a coastal empire where language itself has teeth, a disgraced street alchemist uncovers a formula that turns seawater into living weapon. Desperate, he sells it to a crime syndicate-and unleashes something far older than invention: a song the sea has been waiting to sing.
As noble houses, heretic cults, and salt-mad priests scramble to seize his creation, Rennick Thane discovers the elixir is more than poison. It rewrites flesh, thought, even memory-binding its drinkers to the ocean's will.
But the sea remembers every theft. Every desecration. Every attempt to name it. And now its Brinesong has begun again.
To survive, Rennick must navigate corrupt courts, fanatic sects, and a city whose very grammar is breaking apart. Yet the more he resists, the more the salt inside him whispers: You are not the author. You are the mouth.
Dark, visceral, and unlike anything you've read, SALTBLOOD is a grimdark epic where words are weapons, lies rewrite reality, and the sea demands every debt paid in full.
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