The Salvage Claims · Book Three
Lagan
A claim left beneath the water and marked for recovery pulls an old promise—and a scaled tidal presence—back toward shore.
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What is Lagan about?
In maritime law, lagan is property sunk beneath the water but marked so its owner can return. In this Gothic romance, the marker is an invitation and the thing waiting below has its own understanding of ownership.
Book Three of The Salvage Claims turns recovery into a dangerous promise, pairing storm-soaked coastal folklore with a powerful scaled presence, an old buoy, and a debt the sea has not forgotten.
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
A marked claim threatens Kedge’s place in the household, and forced evacuation threatens the island community itself.
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