the Undrowned: A Novel of Salt Oath

She drowned at seven. The sea gave her back... and has been waiting ever since.Hervor Skarrisdottir is the most feared warrior on her fjord: a shipmaster who cannot drown, cannot scar, and has spent twenty-one years being treated as weapon, omen, and proof that the old powers still rule the coast.But when the taste of salt begins filling her mouth far from the water, Hervor knows the sea is calling in its debt.Raiding west with fifty men, she encounters an ancient Irish bell whose voice can tear open every wound her body has erased, and Cormac, its captive keeper, knows a forbidden truth. Hervor's curse can be broken. But freedom requires a turning tide, a bell rung beneath the water, and the person who gave her to the sea in the first place.When children begin disappearing from the northern fjords, sold to a warlord determined to create more deathless warriors. To save them, Hervor must turn raider into rescuer, captive into ally, and the buried truth of her own drowning into a weapon.Dark, intimate, and steeped in salt, iron, and saga, The Undrowned is an adult historical fantasy about survival, ownership, and a woman determined to belong to no god, no legend, and no one but herself.