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The Saltbound Crown
Paperback
Series: The Tidewitch Duology, Book 1
Publisher: Mario Jordan
Published: Sep 28 2026
Pages: 80
Weight: 0.26
Height: 0.17 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A tidewitch who steals memories. A prince who drowns in them. A kingdom that is running out of time.
Maren Voss is the last of the Tidebound, an ancient order of witches who once kept the sea in balance. Now she lives in the flooded undercity of Calder, stealing memories from corpses to survive. Every memory she takes gives her a few hours of warmth, a face she didn't have, a life she never lived. Every memory she takes costs her one of her own.
She is starving. She is forgetting. She is drowning in the slowest way possible.
Prince Aldric Calder is the heir to a dying throne. He is also cursed, bound to the sea itself, unable to leave the castle walls without the water rising to follow him. He has spent ten years watching his kingdom sink and his father do nothing. He has spent ten years wanting to die.
When Maren is captured and brought to Highcrown, she is offered a deal: enter Aldric's memories, find the moment the covenant between the crown and the sea was broken, and undo it. The price is that every memory she takes from him, she keeps, and every memory she keeps, she loses one of her own. She will forget her name. Her mother's face. The reason she started.
She takes the deal anyway.
But Aldric's memories have been edited. Someone has been inside his mind before her. Someone has buried the truth so deep that finding it might cost Maren everything she is, and everything she could become.
As Maren navigates the salt-stained corridors of Aldric's past, she discovers a bond between them that neither of them chose and neither of them can deny. He is the first person who ever looked at her and saw something worth saving. She is the first person who ever made him want to live. But every memory she takes brings her closer to the truth, and closer to losing the only thing she has left: the memory of loving him.
The sea is patient. The sea has been waiting for thirty years. It can wait a little longer.
The Saltbound Crown is the first book in the Tidewitch Duology, a sweeping romantic fantasy about memory, grief, and the people who refuse to drown. Perfect for readers who love enemies-to-lovers, forced proximity, sacrifice magic, and morally gray characters with everything to lose.
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