Conquest Earned

The corsair's life is simple, right? Hunt pirates, get paid.

But nothing's ever simple where magic, and empires, are concerned.

Captain Ellie Nivkah had settled back into a corsair's life. It'd been a year since she met the noble mage Payra Margha and was drawn into the hunt for her brother's skyraker Jormungaat, and Ellie stood by her choice to take her reward and leave. But vast conspiracies don't just let you go.

Drawn in by secrets from her youth, Ellie accepts a poor contract in the rem...