Black Tides (The Hand of Hades Duology Book 1)

When a long-buried family secret gets Georgina’s father killed, she’s whisked away on an adventure that will change her forever.

Georgina Craine works as an apprentice to her father, the most skilled blacksmith in the Caribbean. Having lost her mother when she was very young, she doesn’t know much about her family’s history, and she’s learned not to ask questions.

But when those secrets finally catch up to them, Georgina’s father entrusts her with a small, mysterious treasure and, with his dying breath, urges her to leave the island they call home.

“𝑨𝒏𝒅 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒅𝒐, 𝒏𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒍𝒆𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒔𝒆 𝒑𝒊𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒔 𝒈𝒆𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒊𝒓 𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒔 𝒐𝒏 𝒊𝒕.”

Drowning in grief and thirsting for revenge, Georgina flees, leaving everything she’s ever known behind, only to find the whole harbor under attack. As she’s searching desperately for a way out, she meets a curiously undaunted stranger named Stella, and together they make a plan to escape with their lives.

What Georgina doesn’t know—but will soon discover—is that Stella is one of the very pirates her father warned her about.

A brazen crew of men who seem impossible to kill. A hidden isle of mythical Druids who commune with the gods. Enemies coming from all directions. Georgina can hardly manage her grief and her struggle for survival among it all. But not everything is as it seems, and as more and more secrets are revealed, she comes to realize that maybe the life she’d been living was not the life she was destined for.