Blood and Salt

Bryony Halloran is the last working witch of a dying line, keeping her late mother’s apothecary alive on a rainy corner of the port city of Ferrow. When the witch-hunters who murdered her mother plant a cold-iron rot in her sister that no salt or tincture can draw, Bryony does the one forbidden thing her mother’s grimoire warned her never to do. She draws a circle in salt and calls up a demon.

Corvane sets his price without blinking. Her soul, forfeit at the autumn equinox, if her sister lives. But the summoning does something she never intended. It ties his life to hers. He cannot leave her, and if one of them dies, so does the other.

He was supposed to be a monster. Instead he stands between her and the men hunting her line, and he swears the thing binding them compels only nearness, never wanting, and that he wants her anyway. Then the hunter who killed her mother learns there is a demon in the city, and he covets the one prize that could leash hell itself: Corvane’s true name. The only way to free Bryony’s soul is for her demon to give that name away, and make himself the most hunted thing in Ferrow.

Blood and Salt is a standalone dark demon romance with a guaranteed happily-ever-after. For adult readers.