The Salvage Claims · Book One
Flotsam
The first Salvage Claims Gothic coastal romance: something carried by the sea without anyone admitting it was deliberately lost.
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What is Flotsam about?
The first claim surfaces along a haunted Atlantic coast, where wreckage is never merely wreckage and the sea keeps a record of every bargain made above it.
Flotsam begins K.S. Valentina’s connected Gothic coastal romance sequence, transforming the legal meaning of goods found floating after a wreck into a story about inheritance, possession, drowned folklore, and dangerous things that refuse to remain lost.
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
Savannah’s inheritance draws her into the island’s bargain with the sea. Her practical salvage skills become essential when the dead and the living are treated as property to be claimed.
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