The Holloway Fermentation Works smelled like salt, metal, and something faintly alive.

When Mara Holloway inherits her great-aunt's pickle factory, she expects debt and decay—not the ancient entity bound beneath the vats. Brannoch has waited centuries, sustained by brine and starved for touch. Their first meeting ignites more than heat; it awakens a hunger that threatens to consume them both.

As divine politics collide with human bureaucracy, Mara discovers her desire doesn't just feed Brannoch—it reshapes the laws of reality itself. But when gods and governments alike try to claim what she's built, Mara must choose: surrender to the old rules, or forge a sovereignty that burns without destroying.

Some hungers are worth the salt.