Daughters of the Salt Rebellion

<p><strong>Daughters of the Salt Rebellion</strong><br><em>A lyrical fantasy of forbidden names ancestral memory and the fire that sings beneath silence.</em></p><p>In an empire where girls are stripped of their names at birth and taught to survive by staying silent Maelani knows only obedience-until the day she hears the sea whisper a name not given by the Crown. Her own.</p><p>Raised in a coastal village of salt harvesters and fear Maelani's life changes when she discovers a forbidden chant-an ancient song passed down by the Sea Mothers women who once shaped the world with their voices. To speak is treason. To remember is a crime. But when her voice rises against the Empire's silence Maelani becomes more than a girl. She becomes a myth reborn.</p><p>As she journeys across the empire-through drowned temples whispering dunes and flame-lit caves-Maelani gathers other daughters who remember fragments of what was stolen: sacred names salt songs bone scripts and womb-carried prophecy. Together they awaken a rebellion not of swords or crowns but of song and memory-an uprising written in ash blood and the unkillable truth of the divine feminine.</p><p>But the Empire of Erasure does not fall quietly. And to sing the First Name-the one that could shatter the kingdom's spell of silence-Maelani must descend into the capital's darkest vault where the bones of her ancestors wait to be remembered.</p><p><strong>Daughters of the Salt Rebellion</strong> is a visionary young adult novel that blends myth mysticism and feminist fantasy in the spirit of <em>The Grace Year</em> <em>She Who Became the Sun</em> and <em>The Priory of the Orange Tree</em>. It is a story about the sacredness of voice the cost of forgetting and the fire waiting in every silenced girl.</p><p>If you've ever felt your voice burning behind your ribs this is the song you've been waiting for.</p>