Chains of the Crescent Sea

When merchant clerk Elias Harrow boards a routine voyage along the Cornish coast, he expects trade, not capture. But when corsairs intercept his ship, he is pulled into a vast, unseen network—one where human lives are meticulously recorded, priced, and traded through ledgers rather than chains.

In the brutal yet eerily ordered slave markets of the Mediterranean, Elias discovers a chilling truth: this is not chaos—it is commerce.

Alongside Marta, a brilliant cartographer who sees patterns where others see survival, and Father Benoît, a priest whose loyalties run deeper than faith, Elias begins to uncover the hidden architecture behind the trade:

As they descend deeper into the machinery of this shadow economy—through ledger houses, covert water gates, and international intermediaries—they uncover a conspiracy that stretches far beyond the markets themselves.

At its peak stands a powerful force:
House Virelli—the unseen authority that doesn't capture people… but insures their fate.

Now, with a diplomatic hostage at the centre of a multi-layered power struggle, Elias and his allies must do the unthinkable:

Break the system from within.

But in a world ruled by ink and calculation…

Even rebellion must be accounted for.