A Crown of Salt and Copper
When a dying courier presses a forbidden coronation coin into Mara Vale's copper-stained palm, it speaks the name of a murdered heir. By dawn, the shipyard girl is accused of theft, her harbor is under blockade, and every powerful person on the islands wants the coin locked in a different box.
With a disgraced palace guard and a ferry pilot who trusts no official seal, Mara races through grain ports, salt roads, and storm channels before winter closes the sea. The coin carries fragments of old coronations: vanished witnesses, stolen memories, and proof that the crown's promise of peace has always had a price.
To save her home, Mara must decide whether truth belongs to whoever can wield it or to everyone forced to live beneath it. A sea-bound YA fantasy of dangerous alliances, civic courage, and a girl who refuses to become anyone's symbol.
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Copper in the Palm
By dusk, Mara's hands had taken on the color of the hull.
Copper dust clung in the lines of her palms and under three split nails. The half-built cutter above her groaned each time wind shoved through Rookwater yard. Mara drove a rivet home, listened for the clean hard answer of metal meeting metal, and reached for another before Joren could complain she was working past bell.
"Last row," he called from scaffold rail. "Then we close."
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