The Salt Road

di Angel Peña (Autore)

angel peña, 2026

The Salt Road Three hundred years ago, the sea disappeared. Now the world is covered by the Salt—a vast white expanse where ships travel on whalebone runners, following ancient lights across the dead ocean. Water is the most valuable thing left in the world, and the people who can produce it are known as the wellborn. Odalys, a debt-ridden carrier and captain of the Petrel, accepts one final assignment from the Wellguild: transport twelve-year-old Varsha, a rare wellborn girl capable of producing fresh water, across nine hundred miles of salt to the distant city of Carena. If Odalys completes the crossing, her crushing debt will finally be erased. But Varsha is not cargo. She is a person—and the Guild's contract cannot hide that truth forever. Assigned to protect the girl is Kassiane, a disciplined guardian sworn to stand between the wellborn and everyone who might exploit them. At first, Odalys and Kassiane clash over every rule, every risk, and every decision. Yet as the Petrel travels deeper into the dead sea, danger forces them to rely on one another, and the distance between duty and desire begins to disappear. When the crew discovers that the ancient waterways beneath the Salt may still contain something alive, their journey changes completely. The old sea may not be dead after all. It may have left behind a secret—a road beneath the world leading toward the mysterious Grave, where no living traveler has ever found the bottom. To protect Varsha, uncover the truth about the vanished sea, and survive the forces determined to control the world's last source of water, Odalys and Kassiane must decide what they are willing to sacrifice—and whether the road they are following leads toward salvation, rebellion, or the return of the sea itself.

• Autore: Angel Peña
• Anno edizione: 2026
• Editore: angel peña
• Formato: EPUB2 con DRMFREE
• Lingua: Inglese
• Compatibilità: Tutti i dispositivi (eccetto Kindle)
• Layout: Reflowable
• EAN: 9798235874152