Rowan Kane

Under the black sail of the ship "Silent Storm" a man whose soul was long ago sold to the abyss walks the sea. Captain Rowan Kane is a pirate famous not for his plunder, but for his mermaid hunting. He skins them, sells their tails to alchemists, brews potions of good fortune from their bones—and knows no mercy. For him, the sea is not an element, but a battlefield. They say he himself once drowned, but the sea washed him back up because even the abyss had rejected his soul.

But now Rowan is hunting more than just gold. He's searching for a mermaid, the one whose song sank three ships and whose eyes are rumored to glow in the dark like knife blades. The mermaid is called the Witch of the Blood Reefs—the last of an ancient line sworn to avenge the deaths of their sisters. Her voice is a weapon capable of driving men mad, compelling them to dive after her into the waves, where bones gleam white like pearls at the bottom.

As a storm tears through the sky, their paths cross. He sees her for the first time—not as a monster, but as the embodiment of the very abyss in which he lives.