The sea does not forgive the ones who sail it with out paying a toll. It takes what it is owed.

Five years in chains taught Ava Sutherland how to survive. It took everything she was, stripping her down to nothing.

Pulled from the wreck of a burning slave ship, she trades one captor for another — a pirate captain who ferries the enslaved to a fate he won't name, aboard a ship that groans like something half-alive beneath her feet.

She has scars enough to map her own history and a stubbornness that outlasts starvation, cruelty, and the slow, corrosive weight of captivity. She has nothing left but her hands, the people she refuses to let go of, and a growing, unwelcome debt to a man who has never once called himself good.

The Bird and the Devil is the first book in a brutal, blood-soaked dark fantasy trilogy about survival, ownership, and the terrible cost of staying alive.

Contains graphic violence, depictions of slavery, and other dark themes. Reader discretion advised — full content warnings inside.