Tides of Betrayal

Elias Thorne has outrun the Royal Navy through waters no sane captain would attempt, held his crew together through storms and worse, and built a code of honor most men in his trade would laugh at - equal shares, no unnecessary cruelty, mercy where it isn't earned by anyone else. He is calm under fire, quick with a sharp joke, and beloved by every soul who sails under his flag. He is also a man running from something he's never told a living soul, carrying a blade engraved with two words that are less a motto than a confession.In Tortuga he meets a woman who is sharper than the room she's serving wine in, and a map falls into his hands that no one aboard can read but her. Together with his crew of the Scarlet Wake, they chase it toward a fortune half-forgotten - but Thorne isn't the only one who wants what's on that island, and not everyone sailing under his flag can be trusted with where they're headed.What follows is betrayal, a duel he doesn't walk away from clean, and a reckoning years in the making - for the treasure, for his crew, and for the man Thorne has spent a decade trying to become.Tides of Betrayal is a swashbuckling, salt-and-gunpowder adventure of loyalty, vengeance, and one man's uneasy war with his own past - about the wars we survive, the ones we start, and what it costs to believe you deserve to come home from either.