Tides of the Forsaken Heart: A Pirate Queen and Cursed Navigator Who Defied Seas: 3

She was born into a curse written in salt and blood. He was cursed to trade his memories for every safe passage he plots. Neither of them asked to need the other.Captain Elara Thorne is the last of a bloodline the sea itself refuses to forgive - a pirate queen ruling a legacy of ruin. When a navigator with no past and no future washes into her crew, she has no choice but to trust the one man rumored to be as dangerous as the curse chasing her family through the Forbidden Reach.Kaelen doesn't trust captains. Captains use people up. But Elara isn't running from the storm - she's sailing straight into it, and something about her refusal to break makes him want to follow her anyway.As sirens sing, ghosts of the ancestral fleet close in, and a rival pirate lord plays for everything they have left, rivalry gives way to a slow-burn intimacy that comes with a devastating price. To break the Thorne curse, one of them may have to give up everything that makes them who they are.A pirate romance with teeth. A fantasy adventure with heart. For readers who love enemies-to-lovers tension, high-stakes found family, and a heroine who chooses her own horizon.