Maren Vessel can move oceans. That's why every crown on the map wants her in chains. The Salt King gets her first. Aeron Vex is a storm in a man's shape, and he needs her tidecalling to hold a coast that's crumbling under him. So he locks her in a tower with an ocean she can hear and can't touch, and chains her to the mast of his flagship every sunrise to remind her what she's worth to him. She is not a possession. She is a bargain. And she is done being the cheap half of it. When an empire offers her freedom for her power, Maren takes the deal, then walks it straight into Aeron's throne room and rewrites it. She'll give him her storms. She wants his fleet, his name, and the captain who first put her in irons-bound to her instead. Some chains get broken. This one gets a wedding.
