House Docks
Maren Tull
The Breakwater
A harbor pilot turned Speaker of House Docks must keep the sea, and the council, from taking her ward.
Ten months ago Maren Tull traded the pilot's tiller for her dead mother's seat on the Council of Five Wards. She knows the bar, the tides, and every family on Tallow Street. She does not know who is buying Lowtown one deed at a time.
Close third person, past tense. Contains drowning, grief, epidemic illness, and civic violence; no graphic gore.
7 chapters · 4 endings · story version 1.1.0