Salt & Shade - The Craft of Survival

Rule Number One: We’re not heroes. That’s how you get dead. Katrionys has had nearly a hundred years to master Maxwell Hayes’s code of survival. In the magic-starved streets of 17th-century Havana, she is a master of precision, silence, and the kind of violence that leaves no record behind. She is ageless, lethal, and, above all else, controlled. Then comes The Diligence. A simple recovery job. Board the ship, dump the cargo, and vanish back into the shadows of the docks. But the cargo isn’t goods. It’s people. And the job isn’t a contract. It’s a setup. Caught between the rigid rules that kept her alive for a century and a line she never expected to cross, Kat must decide which of Max’s lessons to keep, and which ones to burn. She was never meant to belong here.Now she has to decide what that costs.