Every generation, Oyara gives the river a bride from the royal drum-line, and the river gives the land another year. A successful bride is never seen again and is counted blessed. A failed bride comes home on the seventh day and is counted nobody’s. Nobody has succeeded in ninety years. Told through the drum-quarter, its funeral sets and flood-steps, this dark romantasy follows a covenant that kee...
Sienna Voss - Of Salt and Thunder
Of Salt and Thunder
The Drowned Covenant, Book One
Sienna Voss
Description
Every generation, Oyara gives the river a bride from the royal drum-line, and the river gives the land another year. A successful bride is never seen again and is counted blessed. A failed bride comes home on the seventh day and is counted nobody’s. Nobody has succeeded in ninety years. Told through the drum-quarter, its funeral sets and flood-steps, this dark romantasy follows a covenant that keeps better accounts than any court, and a marriage no one expected to survive, including the two people in it. Content note: drowning, ritual death, violence and grief.