She was raised among kings and killers. But some truths still wait beneath the surface. Aidina has spent her life behind the haunted walls of the Phantom Citadel, trained by warlords and watched by saints. Born vampire and mermaid, an impossible heir to two bloodlines, she is a living secret wrapped in silk and steel. Her father, the once-great warrior who now rules beside the swan maiden Visandra, cannot meet her eyes without sorrow. And though Aidina knows what she is, she doesn't know why he grieves. Or what exactly was taken from her. Something is missing. Something that was hers. And the deeper she digs, the more the truth threatens to drown her. With Rahlin, her selkie guardian and closest companion, Aidina begins to unravel the lies sewn into her past. What she uncovers is no accident; it is a spell cast in silence, a betrayal that rewrote her very soul, and a curse meant to keep her obedient, unknowing, and clean. But Aidina was not born clean. She was born to hunger. Salt Blood is a dark, gothic fantasy of memory, monstrous legacy, and a girl clawing her way back to the truth, no matter how many gods, ghosts, or kings must bleed to reveal it.