Ocean of Sin and Starlight -- Karina Halle

<p><strong>PRIEST. PIRATE. MONSTER.</strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong>From New York Times bestselling author Karina Halle comes Ocean of Sin and Starlight, a dark-fantasy romance with morally gray pirates and monstrous sirens, a standalone spinoff of <em>A Ship of Bones and Teeth</em>.</strong></p><p><br></p><p>I wasn't always a monster.</p><p><br></p><p>Once upon a time I had a family, a home, dreams.</p><p><br></p><p>Until it was taken away from me and I was turned into a creature only the Devil could love, cursed with bloodlust and immortality.</p><p><br></p><p>I spent a century in an isolated monastery for other heathens like me, learning to control my most monstrous impulses, becoming a man of faith so I could put my sins behind me.</p><p><br></p><p>I was doing so well.</p><p><br></p><p>I was almost...human.</p><p><br></p><p>Until I met her.</p><p><br></p><p>Larimar, the tempting siren who made me forget my vows, who promised herself to me before she escaped my clutches.</p><p><br></p><p>Now I'm obsessed with tracking Larimar down, joining an infamous pirate crew on their ship the Nightwind as we search the high seas for any sign of her.</p><p><br></p><p>I don't know what I'll do when I find her.</p><p><br></p><p>But I know she belongs to me.</p><p><br></p><p>And I'll become a monster once more.</p><p><br></p><p><strong><em>NOTE TO READER: Though this is linked as part of the Nightwind series, this book can be read as a standalone. HOWEVER, if you were planning on readi