Counter Current

Counter CurrentShips carried cargo, soldiers, fugitives, ambition, and hunger across the Caribbean. Not everyone travelled with the current.These five linked stories follow people moving through the seventeenth-century Caribbean, where trade routes, private wars, and shifting loyalties could alter a life as quickly as a storm.A salt-hand learns the cost of endurance at sea. An inheritance burns hotter than blood. Trade and empire test loyalty in dangerous waters. Ledgers record debts no paper was meant to hold. And in ports built on appetite and ambition, survival changes everyone differently.Counter Current is a collection of historical maritime fiction set in the world of Iron Mercy.