A Curse of Salt – Street Sarah (2023)

A heartless beast, a sister’s sacrifice and a love strong enough to drown the raging sea come together in this romantic Beauty and the Beast retelling. In a kingdom that fears the sea, Ria Lucroy longs to be brave. Bodies are washing ashore, and everyone knows who is to blame. Legends of the Heartless King shroud the continent in fear: they call him a pirate, a monster, a god. When his mercenaries raid her father’s merchant ship, Ria’s family faces a horrifying demand: they will spare his life in exchange for one of his daughters. Determined to save her sisters, Ria throws herself into the world of pirates. Face-to-face with the Heartless King, she discovers that he is far more than the stories claim: a man with a human name and blood-stained hands, bound to the seas by a centuries-old curse. As their chemistry develops into something more, Ria becomes caught in an ancient web of secrets. Battling creatures of the deep alongside those that rule the surface, she learns how to love a heartless man and that some curses are not easily broken. This enemies-to-lovers fairy-tale romance offers stormy seas, dark secrets and swoony romance, and is ideal for fans of Brigid Kemmerer’s Cursebreakers series and Sarah J. Maas’s A Court of Thorns and Roses.