IkuSaari

A young healer woman sets sail to kill her enemies and steal the heart of the prince her rival desires. She encounters deadrousers, cannibals and lunatics as she hunts for epic treasures and love. She finds out she can be everything she wants to be: a doctor and a healer of thieves, a lover and an impressively rich spirit aunt, but the price she has to pay will be paid in blood. 

Serenica Ingram is a brave witch in her twenties. She would do anything to be even better at healing. Mariana Kinley, a witch-hating witch and a ruthless businesswoman, doesn't like competition and drives Serenica out of her home. She joins the pirate crew of the necromancer, Captain Spade. 

The city of Neul that Serenica calls home is a hostile and degenerate place, ripe with rich merchants and homeless witches, but the mythical island of outlaws, Aja Vana, is even stranger. The western islands are populated by outcasts and Serenica would do anything to avoid them. 

Becoming a rich and respected pirate healer isn't easy, especially with both other witches and royals wanting Serenica dead. She has to sail to the ends of the known world just to get her stolen property back, and even harder will be to catch the eye of the Dreamer, the fair prince whom Kinley also desires, while fulfilling the promise to kill a king.

WARNING: s*icide mentions, very mild cursing, violence, blood so please use caution when reading.

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Water Belongs to the Dead: Heart of the Witch

Serenica did have a king to kill. She went to sleep, again without her obsidian. She was worried about the latest developments and what those might mean to her beloved.

She found the Dreamer in the same sailing boat, now looking a lot more like himself again.

"It's so good to see you," he said, raising his gaze from the still waters. "My mother is acting strange. I think she knows what I tried to do. She will – my father will -"

"Are you all right?" Serenica interrupted him. "Did they do something to you?"

"No. They'll make me do something to you instead, and that is much, much worse." He grimaced. "I tried to make them let go of their revenge ideas, but they insisted that I at least take that part of you that we talked about."

"It's not your fault," Serenica said. She reached out to him, placing her hand gently on his back.

Caressing Kisses