BEFORE TIDEBOUND · THE PREQUEL NOVELLA
Saltbound
Lani returns to her family’s salt pans and discovers the old rules were never only superstition.
A salt-spirit romance from the shores of Ahi’koa.
Your first visit to the island is on me.
The couple. Lani Kahale, a Honolulu laboratory worker returning to her family’s salt pans, and Akahi, an ancient salt spirit with a crystalline, non-human form.
The world. A decades-earlier prequel on fictional Ahiʻkoa: a lagoon, salt pans, and a family tradition of giving salt rather than selling it.
Romance threads. Homecoming; a human and an elemental spirit; family legacy; choosing where to belong.
What’s at stake. Lani has a life waiting in Honolulu. Loving the lagoon’s keeper means deciding what she can give him without giving up the shore and the work that belong to her.
A family member’s injury, storm peril and a rescue at sea, bereavement, and the lasting bodily changes an elemental bond can bring. These notes are based on the current manuscript.
TWO WAYS TO COME ASHORE
Saltbound is a complete prequel novella.
Start here, then continue with Tidebound.
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