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

"What are they? What do they want?" Serenica asked as her anxious nature settled in again.

"How should I know?! This land has things beyond what the wildest imaginations can produce! There are probably spirits in the Forest, too! I don't want you to be doomed!"

This would have been a pleasant development, a healthy bout of natural emotions, mostly fear, but as her fear was rational, Serenica could not find much joy in the returning of common sense to Essieca's mind.

"We can't sleep," the healer sighed. "Of course we can't. Spirits and ghosts, I don't want to anger them. Even invisible things, no, especially invisible things can be very territorial at times."

They listened to any possible sounds coming from the corridor, but there were none, until someone walked to their room, and from the familiar swagger in the steps Serenica could safely say that they heard a pirate going to sleep, nothing more, nothing less.

The Stench