The Empire is coming for everything she loves, and it flies her own doctrine.
Wren Halloran chose the free fleet. She chose the storm-marked captain with lightning in his scars and war in his blood. But the Empire has launched its reclamation: ironclads on the sea and sky-dreadnoughts above, hunting the free ships and the dredge fields they live on. And Kessler's final offer arrives under a flag of truce, carried by the commander who taught her to fly: her pardon, her master pilot rating restored, her name cleared, if she delivers Soren Blacktide's head. Seventy-two hours to decide.
She refuses. The refusal costs lives.
Now Wren must turn everything the navy ever taught her inside out, teaching the free captains their own doctrine and then how to break it. She will outfly her teachers across sea and sky, bleed the ironclads dry of range, and take Kessler with his own navy's lessons turned against him to the last. But war exacts its price in loyalty: her old squadron, her old name, her old life, weighed against the man waiting on the Stormwake and the vow written in the ship's book.
IRONWAKE is the third book in the Tidebound series, a dark pirate romantasy of war and devotion, explicit heat, and a love that refuses to be collateral.
