blood and salt
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The sea is cruel, but it is not heartless.
Hongjoong has spent months under the flag of the Red Widow, a notorious pirate captain whose name alone can silence taverns. With six brothers-at-arms beside him, Hongjoong endures raids, lashes, and long nights on salt-stained decks, all the while hungering for more than a crewmate’s life. Ambition gnaws at him like the tide against stone.
But the night the captain calls him below deck, everything changes.
Behind iron and glass, chained in water and mutilated into silence, lies a creature Hongjoong had never truly believed in: a siren. Pale, powerful, otherworldly and ruined, stitched mouth closed with black thread. Seonghwa.
The sight unsettles Hongjoong more than blood or cannonfire ever has. He should fear the monster the captain boasts of taming. Instead, he cannot forget the dark weight of his gaze, the sorrow pressed into him without a single word.
As the Red Widow’s cruelty grows, Hongjoong and his brothers will be forced to choose their own paths.
And through it all, Hongjoong cannot escape the memory of the siren chained below deck, nor the terrible pull of what Seonghwa might become if ever freed.