This story contains themes of: depression, assault, extreme violence gore
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“To sail against the tide is to court the sea’s wrath; to survive it is to become its curse.” In a world where the tides carry curses and names are carved into the bones of the drowned, The Sinking Rose tells the tale of Vincenzo “The Storm’s Bane” D’Arco, the infamous Pirate King—the only man the sea ever spat back alive. Haunted by a legacy soaked in salt and blood, and bound to a curse born of forgotten gods and broken promises, he dares to sail once more into waters that should have claimed him. With his crew of broken souls, Elena, a sharp-tongued mercenary with a dagger in her hand and ghosts in her past, they traverse the cursed strait and enter the Sea of Shattered Vows, their journey becomes more than a voyage—it becomes a reckoning. Only then, they would confront the cost of breaking oaths older than empires. For Ashara’s mercy is a blade wrapped in kelp. Blending myth, maritime folklore, and dark romanticism, The Sinking Rose is is a hymn to the damned, where love is a cutlass to the gut, loyalty is a currency paid in scars, and the sea sings sailors to madness. For fans of Pirate Gothic, tragic immortality, and battles where the true enemy is the weight of centuries. And remember, bow to the tide, and it drowns you. Fight it, and you drown the world...
© 2025 by ASH Walter
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This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s mere imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is coincidental.
Copyright © 2025 by ASH Walter
ASH Walter asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.
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