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

As they made their way through the Forest, the giant revealed more terrible things that might or might not have been lies. It liked eating women and killing infants. It was a bit hard to believe that people still went into the Forest, with these rumors spreading around, but the spirits in their physical forms were but a joke to half of the villagers.

Serenica felt nauseous. She wanted a bath, some real, warm food, and she wanted her friend back, but as they were walking back to the village, the forest spirit stopped them.

At first, it was something only a being of the wilderness could hear. Then the drums started to be audible for humans as well.

The beating of the drums came from a direction that Serenica supposed to be the south, but the rhythm was northern, tropical, very much out of place in the cool spring of the Land of Lakes.

"Do not move," the forest giant said. "Do not…move. I will deal with this."

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