
Vivien Nash
Author of Sapphic Fantasy Romance
Some treasures should stay buried. Some secrets should never be unearthed.Riley has spent her life surviving on lies. She cons, she cheats, she takes what she wants and never looks back. When she tricks her way onto the Moonshadow, a pirate ship bound for an impossible treasure, she expects gold, and dreams of the things that come with it. Stability, security, a future where she doesn’t have to fight for every scrap. What she doesn’t expect is to be dealt into the crew’s games, drawn into their stories, and treated like she belongs.But their leader, Captain Calla Nymeris, is as untouchable as the ocean—secretive, relentless, her gaze always fixed on the horizon as if haunted by something only she can see. Her first mate Sable is a force of nature herself, a warrior with sharp eyes and a sharper tongue, who watches Riley like she’s trying to decide whether to trust her or throw her overboard.As they chase a treasure that shouldn’t exist, through waters that pull ships under and islands where the dead do not sleep, Riley realizes she wants more than gold.But the sea is always hungry. And it never gives without taking.A darkly romantic sapphic fantasy, Virelai’s Hoard is a tale of cursed treasure, treacherous seas, and love tangled in betrayal.
Three women. One cursed treasure. And an ocean between them.For Riley, the Moonshadow was supposed to be a quick score—a chance to steal its cursed treasure and move on. Instead, she’s found something she never expected: acceptance among its crew, a place she might finally belong in the arms of their first mate, Sable. And when the chance came to repay that kindness, all Riley wanted was to free captain Calla Nymeris from her demons. Give her the same acceptance she’d shown Riley by welcoming her aboard. But her wish backfired, and Riley made herself the last person Calla will ever trust. And she lost Sable. She’ll do anything to make it right… if she can figure out how.Calla is now the embodiment of her worst nightmare. Webbed fingers, salt-scoured skin, resurfacing instincts she’d spent a lifetime learning how to keep hidden even from herself. And Sable, the first mate who had always been steady by her side, has vanished with the very Heart they bled to win. Despite years of keeping Sable at arms’ length, the loss is a wound that won’t close.Bound together by the one person they can’t lose, Calla has no choice but to keep Riley in arms’ reach while they follow Sable into seas that feel wrong, as if the water itself resents their passage. And with every league, Calla and Riley are forced to face the truth: the only way they’ll make it to the end of this hunt is by learning to trust each other.At the edge of the map, the Heart is waiting.And so is the choice that could drown them all.
Kittredge only needed shelter. She didn’t expect to be seen..Kittredge never thought she’d find herself without a crew. But one too many drinks, one too many reckless choices, and now she's stranded in a pirate cove built into the bones of the sea—alone, hunted, and deeply regretting most of her night’s choices.Rowe stopped sailing years ago. Her tattoo shop in the stone tunnels is quiet, her routines quieter still, and she prefers it that way. But when a charming, desperate runaway stumbles through her door, Rowe makes a choice she can’t quite explain.Kit needs a place to hide for one night. Rowe only agrees because it's temporary.Neither of them mean to get attached.Storm Shelter is a sapphic romantic fantasy about a pirate with a gift for getting in trouble, a quiet tattoo artist who gave up the sea long ago, and the brief shelter they find in each other, just long enough to matter.Please note: While this short novella can be read as a standalone, it ends with a bittersweet HFN. The eventual HEA can be found within the Dagger & Tide Trilogy.
Content Warnings
Graphic descriptions of violence, sexual content, character deaths, child death, drowning, xenophobia.Reader discretion is advised.
Content Warnings
Graphic descriptions of violence, sexual content, character deaths, drowning, xenophobia, body dysmorphia.Reader discretion is advised.
Content Warnings
Graphic descriptions of violence, sexual content, past death of a loved one, strong language.Reader discretion is advised.
About

Early on, Vivien Nash took one long look at reality and decided she did not like it. The solution? Build her own queernormative stories where all genders stand equal and the morally grey rogue always gets her hard-earned happily ever after—no matter how much she insists she doesn’t need one.When she’s not writing queer fantasy adventures packed with tension, tenderness, and just enough heat to keep things fun, Vivien disappears into other people’s stories, experiments in the kitchen (good food fixes most things), and works out purely because she thinks muscles are cool (some of her stories might or might not include a muscle mommy ready to crush you between her thighs). She does not enjoy being perceived, but she is more than happy to share her fictional worlds with you.If you’re looking for dark sapphic fantasy, soft-for-her romance, found family, and heroines who learn that needing someone doesn’t make them weak, welcome. You’re exactly where you’re supposed to be.
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