Salt & Sparrowbones plunges readers into a stark, haunting chain of shipwreck isles where survival is dictated by the sea's insatiable hunger and brutal ritual. Fayne, a wrecker’s outcast daughter, scrapes a living among salt-bleached bones and whale-rib ruins—until she unearths a legendary bone-compass, awakening a raw, forbidden magic known as Osteocraft. Hunted by her own kin and pursued by the relentless enforcer called the Pale Sister, Fayne becomes a reluctant hero, forced to choose between being complicit in cruel customs or forging a new path through teeth and tides. With only a bone-chilled companion at her side, she’s thrust into an epic quest, racing through graveyard shores, cryptic rhymes, and cursed magic as the isles’ hunger threatens to claim everything she loves.

This gritty YA fantasy delivers a briny, unflinching coming-of-age journey, rich with themes of mercy versus survival, found family, and the agonizing cost of hope. The salt-scoured world pulses with dystopian magic—where navigation, fate, and choice are carved from relics and blood, and every act of defiance risks condemnation or worse. As Fayne deciphers bone-maps and the dark truths of her ancestors, she must confront the hunger haunting both sea and soul, and decide whether her broken world can ever be remade through kindness or only through sacrifice.

Will Fayne’s fractured courage and stubborn mercy be enough to shatter centuries of hunger and law? Or will she—and those who dare follow—become just more bones for the sea’s endless maw? In Salt & Sparrowbones, destiny runs on salt and grief, but hope flickers brightest in exile. Step ashore—if you can survive the crossing.