They call the sea lawless. They’ve never sailed under Jael Blackmoor. Thalia stowed away on a cargo ship to change her fate—running from a life that was never truly hers. Disguised and desperate, she never expected to be thrown into a world of pirates… or to discover it might be exactly what she needed. Aboard the Moonfang, survival means blending in, staying silent, and never letting her secret slip. But the crew is not what she imagined—loud, loyal, chaotic in a way that feels dangerously close to home. At the center stands Captain Jael Blackmoor—commanding, perceptive, and impossible to ignore. What begins as caution slowly twists into something far more dangerous: a growing pull she can’t explain, a quiet gravity that draws her closer with every glance, every test, every unspoken understanding between them. Now, caught between the life she fled and the one unfolding before her, Thalia isn’t sure how much longer she can keep pretending—especially when her past begins to close in. As past and present collide, she must decide her future once again. Because on the Moonfang, nothing stays buried… and not all storms come from the sky