Book One of The Ember Tide
Salt & Cinder
A lighthouse keeper's daughter discovers the sea has been keeping a ledger, and her family is deep in debt.
Released
Published
Publisher
Saltreach Press
Pages
412
Edition
First
About the book
The sea always keeps its promises.
Ilse Vell has spent her whole life on Saltreach, tending the lamp her mother tended and her grandmother before that. She knows the tides by heart. She does not know why the sea has started to sing.
When the first coastal town vanishes overnight, Ilse is pulled into a war between drowned kingdoms and the last people who remember their names. The only weapon anyone has left is the flame in her family’s lighthouse.
Salt & Cinder is the first book in The Ember Tide, an epic fantasy series of salt magic, sunken cities, and stubborn people who refuse to leave.
Praise & reviews
An assured debut that reads like a tide coming in: slow, then all at once.
The Lamplight Review
Wren Hollis builds a world you can taste. Salt, smoke, and grief.
Dana Reyes, author of Hollow Kings
The most atmospheric fantasy opening I've read in years.
Fantasy Shelf Weekly
