THE SEA WITCH DRAWS MAPS ON HER SKIN

Inez Sarra once testified against sea witch Maris Vell to keep an imperial navigation license. Years later, she steals Maris from a prisoner auction and accepts a contract written in living ink. Every consensual reading reveals a route across Maris’s skin but erases one of the witch’s senses. Their hunt for Thalassar’s original Coast Skin exposes a second Inez, a divided memory, and an empire preparing to erase both women’s homelands from the world.

She betrayed the sea witch she loved for a legal map, but the only route home now moves beneath her former lover’s skin.