Book Two of the SeaWorld Series
The ocean is finally at peace. The sky never was.
When Jr. Salt Kennedy tears the New Messiah out of the crushing depths and into the open air, he believes his war is over. The Salt Throne has a new King. The woman he loves is waiting for him in the dark waters below. And somewhere above the endless ocean ceiling, a world of sunlight is waiting to welcome him home.
He should have known better than to believe in easy endings.
What Salt finds when he breaks the surface is not the golden empire his mother once ruled. It is ash. It is silence. It is a graveyard stretching from horizon to horizon, choked with the dead, its cities reduced to smoking craters in a single, unimaginable hour. The world he was sent away to protect ? the world his father died believing was safe ? has been erased by something far older and far crueler than dark magic.
A name. A single, terrifying name, whispered with the last breath of a dying man: Lord Ibumu.
To understand the enemy who could unmake a continent, Salt must first confront the truth of who he really is ? the son of a King who built an empire from nothing, and a mother whose secrets ran deeper than the sea itself. Their love story, born from a chance meeting on open water, forged the very magic that now runs through his veins. But love, in this world, has never come without a price. And the price paid for Salt's power was paid in blood ? his mother's blood, spilled by a hand no one suspected, in a betrayal that would curse him to a life he never should have lived.
Now, with his past finally laid bare, Salt must return to the world that cursed him, gather the only allies he has left, and face a threat that does not fight with armies or magic ? but with absolute, unanswerable power. A hidden continent floats above the clouds, armed and waiting. A war is coming that will not stay beneath the waves or above the sky, but will consume both worlds at once, unless someone is willing to burn for it.
Nathan J. Pearce, now crowned the Ledger King of the deep, must decide what kind of ruler he truly wants to be when peace is no longer an option. Queen Frankstein Aren must wield magic she has spent her whole life hiding. And Gracy ? the nymph who gave Salt a reason to come home ? must ask herself what she is willing to lose to keep him there.
OverSea: The Salt Rule is not a story about becoming a King. It is a story about what a man gives up long before anyone thinks to call him one ? and what it costs the people who love him to let him go.
Dark, explicit, and unflinchingly emotional, this is a tale of inherited power, buried betrayal, and a love strong enough to reach across two impossible worlds ? even when reaching means losing everything. Fans of morally complex dark fantasy, forbidden romance, and epic sacrifice will find themselves pulled into a story that refuses to give its characters ? or its readers ? an easy way out.
The throne beneath the waves is safe.
The sky above it has just begun to fall.
