Corin Hale lost his commission for refusing to burn one book: the logbook of a lost ship that proved there was land beyond the fog at the edge of the world.

Now he wants three things. He wants his grandmother’s ship back from the navy impound. He needs a navigator who can read a sea no chart has ever shown. And he needs a quartermaster who can fight. He gets the ship by stealing her at midnight. He gets the fighter, Saoirse Quill, a laughing, sword-scarred deserter, out of a tavern brawl. And he gets the navigator by cutting her down from a gallows. She is Isolde Maren, a proud, sharp-tongued tide-witch who pays for every spell with a memory she will never get back.

Behind them comes the commodore who broke Corin, and he never stops. Ahead lies the Pale Line, forty leagues of fog that no ship has crossed and returned from. On the far side the stars are wrong, the reefs move, and the sea itself is listening.

Somewhere between the fog and the first unknown island, Corin will have to decide what he is sailing toward. Isolde will have to decide what she can bear to lose.

A sword-and-sorcery voyage with a found-family crew, a cantankerous cook, a ship’s worth of hens and a love story written in the margins of a chart.

Contains open-door love scenes.