The Silver Wake

 

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The Silver Wake is a nautical gothic horror fantasy set in a shattered world where the sun has not risen in generations. The sea is broken—scarred by an ancient cataclysm and ruled by night and salt. Ghosts haunt the tides, ancient gods sleep beneath the black waves, and the skies burn with unending stars. In this drowned world, the most feared legend of all is the Silver Wake—a phantom fleet of cursed ships, bound to the depths, dragging the souls of the lost into the abyss.

Captain Sael Vorran, a disgraced pirate lord exiled from every known port, lives only for vengeance. Years ago, his father betrayed him and vanished into myth—reappearing now as the Nameless Admiral, commander of the Wake and master of a fleet that defies death and time. Sael’s only hope of ending the curse lies in chasing the Admiral into the heart of the Shattered Seas, even if it means damning himself in the process.

With him sails a crew of outcasts and cursed souls:
—Issane Quorr, a tideborn witch able to bend the sea and winds, but tormented by a twin enslaved aboard the Wake.
—Dreg Voss, a harpooner whose past mutiny haunts every step, and whose guilt festers like a wound.
—Rilith Harrow, a scholar of drowned languages and forbidden lore, who seeks knowledge buried in sunken temples.
—Ashryn Coil, a blade hidden in plain sight, with secrets as dangerous as the Wake itself.

They chart a course through legendary places few dare name:
—The Bleak Shoals, a graveyard of shipwrecks haunted by siren-kin and spectral storms.
—Vaegra’s Lantern, the last floating freehold clinging to hope in a sea of ruin.
—Tidegrave, an ancient drowned city where the crew must steal the Mawshard Spear, forged from leviathan bone and key to breaking the Wake’s curse.
—The Iron Reef, a labyrinth of rusted warships now crawling with sea-ghouls and drowned priests.
—The Abyssal Maw, a vast whirlpool said to be the gods’ prison—and possibly their grave.

As the tides twist and the Wake draws nearer, Sael and his crew face horrors both supernatural and human. Old betrayals resurface. Madness infects the winds. The Deep Choir, servants of the ocean’s forgotten will, seek to bend Issane to their cause. Prophecies whisper of bloodlines cursed and sacrifices unpaid. The sea gives nothing without cost, and in the end, it takes everything.

In a final cataclysm beneath the light of a blood moon, Sael’s ship, The Black Vire, faces the Silver Wake in a battle where legacy and revenge collide. The Mawshard Spear pierces truth as deeply as flesh, and what is revealed about the Nameless Admiral will change the course of the seas forever.

Will Sael destroy the Wake, or be devoured by it? Can vengeance undo a legacy soaked in blood—or does the sea claim all who dare defy its will?

The Silver Wake is a sweeping tale of cursed ships, drowned gods, and the obsessive hunger for revenge. For fans of dark nautical fantasy, gothic horror, cosmic mysteries, and atmospheric high-stakes adventure, this novel plunges deep into a world where death is not the end—and the tide is never truly still.