The Vaelvet Noose

Bexley Morgan was raised aboard The Thresher-half crew, half captive, and bound by the tides-until the Captain she trusted most sold her to a pirate she despised. Her defiance left the deck in flames and her body sinking beneath open water, with nothing but a stolen fragment of a riddle said to lead to Skelder's Hollow-a treasure whispered about in blood and legend.
Pulled from the sea by Commander Cedric Locke, Bex does not find freedom. She becomes leverage. The Empire offers her a single ...