{"product_id":"blood-barnacles-pascal-bronte-9798289809407","title":"Blood \u0026 Barnacles: A Nautical Dark Fantasy of Rebellion, Godships, and Sea-Bound Betrayal","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBefore there were sails, there were teeth.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBefore there were maps, there were monsters.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnd before any man carved a name into the sea, the sea had already named itself: Hunger.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey say the ocean is blue. It isn't.\u003cbr\u003eIt's black.\u003cbr\u003eBlack as oil, black as old gods and broken promises.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLong ago, when the stars still hung low enough to kiss the water, the \u003cb\u003eDrowned Kings\u003c\/b\u003e ruled the endless tides. They rode ships made from leviathan ribs and stitched their sails from whale skin. They spoke to the moon. They drank storms like wine. They \u003ci\u003eowned\u003c\/i\u003e the sea-not as a sailor owns a boat, but the way a throat owns a scream.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTheir names are all but forgotten now. Swallowed.\u003cbr\u003eBut the sea remembers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt remembers \u003cb\u003eKing Aratheon the Silent\u003c\/b\u003e, who cast his crown into a volcano and fed his crew to the fire to summon rain.\u003cbr\u003eIt remembers \u003cb\u003eQueen Sypha of the Broken Bell\u003c\/b\u003e, who could raise ghost fleets from fog and bone.\u003cbr\u003eAnd it remembers the last of them-\u003cb\u003eOron the Hollow\u003c\/b\u003e, who built a throne from coral and teeth... and who vanished when the Empire came.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey didn't kill him.\u003cbr\u003eThey couldn't.\u003cbr\u003eThey simply poured iron into the ocean until the water screamed-and the gods who lived there \u003ci\u003esank\u003c\/i\u003e into silence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat was a hundred years ago.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow, ships sail safe. Trade flows. The Empire rules the coasts. The world forgets.\u003cbr\u003eBut the sea? The sea is patient.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt's been waiting.\u003cbr\u003eWatching.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd somewhere-far beneath the Shattered Strait-\u003cb\u003esomething stirs\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe tide is shifting.\u003cbr\u003eThe drowned will rise.\u003cbr\u003eAnd their new queen... will not be born from gold or blood or crown-\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eShe will be born from silence.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Pascal Bronte\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798289809407\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/26\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 62\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.21lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.13d","brand":"Pascal Bronte","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48852588921087,"sku":"9798289809407","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/blood-barnacles-pascal-bronte-9798289809407","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}