My family sold me to pay my brother's debts—now I'll destroy them all

by Logan Jackson

Betrayal tastes like salt and iron when your family sells you into servitude to save your worthless brother. Branded and bound to the ruthless Captain Veyre, I'm now property of the Tidecallers—a fate most consider worse than death. But they've made a fatal mistake: they think a decade of service will break me, that I'll forget the mother who signed my life away and the brother who gambled it into existence. Instead, every lash, every humiliation, every night in chains is sharpening me into a weapon they'll never see coming. When my contract finally ends, I won't just reclaim my freedom—I'll burn down everyone who thought I was worth thirty thousand gold crescents and nothing more.