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Before the Storm: Salt & Starlight - The Prequel
Before Isidra faced the ocean's wrath, her mother defied it—and paid the price.
Start the Salt & Starlight Trilogy here and discover the love story that doomed a daughter to face an impossible choice.
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Marisol was meant to be a sacrifice.
Raised at Tidecross fortress, groomed to become the ocean's Herald—a living vessel whose humanity would be erased and replaced with something vast and divine. At nineteen, when the Circle demands she undergo the ritual that will dissolve everything she is, Marisol does the
She refuses.
She flees in the dead of night, swimming miles through raging water while the ocean screams at her betrayal. She washes ashore in Brinemeer, half-drowned and shimmering with power—and meets the man who will change everything.
Lord Silvio Ovalle is drowning in grief. Six months widowed, four young sons, a crumbling manor, and a heart that's forgotten hope. When he finds Marisol collapsed in the tide pools, he offers her something she's never a choice.
They fall in love against every warning. She teaches his sons magic. He teaches her to laugh. They marry on the beach while the ocean sings—a sound like warning and longing and grief.
When Marisol becomes pregnant, the sea shows her visions of their a girl who will stand on these same cliffs one day, believing she failed to save her father, carrying guilt that was never hers to bear.
A daughter named Isidra.
Five years later, Silvio walks into a storm to protect his tide-born daughters.
This is the story of the love that started everything.
And the sacrifice that proves love is not surrender—even when it costs you everything.
Start the Salt & Starlight Trilogy here and discover the love story that doomed a daughter to face an impossible choice.
_____________________________________
Marisol was meant to be a sacrifice.
Raised at Tidecross fortress, groomed to become the ocean's Herald—a living vessel whose humanity would be erased and replaced with something vast and divine. At nineteen, when the Circle demands she undergo the ritual that will dissolve everything she is, Marisol does the
She refuses.
She flees in the dead of night, swimming miles through raging water while the ocean screams at her betrayal. She washes ashore in Brinemeer, half-drowned and shimmering with power—and meets the man who will change everything.
Lord Silvio Ovalle is drowning in grief. Six months widowed, four young sons, a crumbling manor, and a heart that's forgotten hope. When he finds Marisol collapsed in the tide pools, he offers her something she's never a choice.
They fall in love against every warning. She teaches his sons magic. He teaches her to laugh. They marry on the beach while the ocean sings—a sound like warning and longing and grief.
When Marisol becomes pregnant, the sea shows her visions of their a girl who will stand on these same cliffs one day, believing she failed to save her father, carrying guilt that was never hers to bear.
A daughter named Isidra.
Five years later, Silvio walks into a storm to protect his tide-born daughters.
This is the story of the love that started everything.
And the sacrifice that proves love is not surrender—even when it costs you everything.
91 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 28, 2025
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