Salt Road Caravan

Sera Dain knows the Salt Road.She's crossed the White Expanse before. Survived the heat, the thirst, the long silence that strips people down to what they really are. When merchant Farid Halim offers her a high-paying contract to lead a caravan across the desert, she takes it without hesitation.Forty-three camel loads. Six wagons. Twelve guards. Five weeks of unforgiving terrain.Routine work.Until the signs begin.Knocked-over markers. Fires on the horizon. Riders who never approach - but never leave. An abandoned camp where people fled without taking food or water. And a warning carved into stone:TURN BACK. DEATH WAITS IN THE PASS.Someone is watching the caravan. Tracking it. Preparing for something ahead.As water starts disappearing from sealed barrels and trust inside the caravan begins to fracture, Sera realizes this is no ordinary crossing. Whatever took the caravans before them didn't leave bodies behind.It didn't need to.Salt Road Caravan is a tense, character-driven desert survival novel about leadership, suspicion, and the slow realization that the greatest danger isn't the desert - it's what's already waiting inside it.