"The Last Crossing. A Novella in the Reckoning Cycle"

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Inês dos Santos has crossed the Cape of Good Hope eleven times. The twelfth will be her last. She knows the convergence zone where the Atlantic ends and the Indian Ocean begins, the currents that run counter to every chart, the grey-green of water that has killed men who knew it better than she does. She knows her ship. She knows her crew. She knows her captain. Eight years of shared crossings, chart tables at three in the morning, and a question she is finally ready to answer. The Last Crossing follows the last voyage of the Esperança - a 1583 Portuguese dispatch caravel, bound for Mozambique in deteriorating weather  It is a love story told in logbook entries and barometric readings, in the professional language two people use when they cannot say what they mean. And it is a ghost story -- because sixty years after the Cape takes the Esperança, a man is still standing at the stern window of ships that aren't his, waiting for the woman who hasn't found her way back yet. For readers who want the heat without the hurry -- a romance where the charged silence across a chart table carries as much weight as anything that follows. Gothic paranormal romance with salt in its lungs. _______________________  Content Warnings : The Last Crossing contains depictions of drowning and death at sea, a fatal storm sequence, and period-accurate professional danger. The romance between the lead characters develops slowly and does not resolve cleanly. Heat level: 2/5. The tension is the point.