The Salvage Claims · Book Four
Derelict
The final salvage category waits beyond rescue: a vessel, a keeper, and a claim abandoned with no intention of recovery.
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What is Derelict about?
A derelict is property wholly abandoned at sea. It is the most absolute of the four salvage claims—and the most dangerous promise in K.S. Valentina’s connected coastal sequence.
The finale moves beyond rescue toward the broken causeway and its spectral lantern keeper, asking what remains when ownership, hope, and the intention to return have all been surrendered.
People and creatures
Savannah Cane is a human salvage diver returning to her island home after her aunt’s death. Her nonhuman companions draw on Lowcountry folklore: Verey, the storm-warning Gray Man; Mercer, a boo hag; Kedge, a scaled Lizard Man; and Vigil, the shape-changing plat-eye who keeps the crossing.
World and setting
Cane’s Folly, an invented island on the South Carolina Lowcountry coast. The present-day story begins in 2026, with salt wards, drowned histories, and supernatural claims beneath the marsh and sea.
What’s at stake
With the crossing breaking apart, Savannah must protect the household and an island the sea is preparing to clear.
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