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Vows of Salt

by TJ HollowayAuthor · status: Open

Releases Dec. 15, 2026 · 53 days left

🗓 Review by Jan. 5, 2027 · 74 days left

eBook · 320 pages · Mature · Salt Kings - Book 1 · 🌶️🌶️🌶️ Hot

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Her father owed him a fortune. Philip Berg wanted something money couldn't buy: the Solheim name.


Nora Solheim never agreed to become the price of her father's debt.

On the rain-soaked coast of northern Norway, Philip Berg has built a powerful business empire. But money and influence can only take him so far. Marrying into the Solheim family will give him the respectability his own name cannot.


For Nora, the marriage is a transaction she never wanted. But she has her own reasons for entering Philip's world—and every intention of finding his weaknesses.

Philip is accustomed to giving orders and having them obeyed. Nora has spent her life being underestimated. Neither is prepared for the dangerous attraction developing between them.


As secrets surface and loyalties fracture, Nora finds herself caught between the father who

used her and the husband she was supposed to destroy.

And the closer she gets to Philip, the harder it becomes to know which of them is truly in danger.


Set against the dark fjords and unforgiving waters of Norway, Vows of Salt is a dark romantic suspense novel featuring an arranged marriage, enemies to lovers, a morally grey hero, dangerous attraction, betrayal, and a heroine determined to reclaim control of her life.


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Content notes: Violence, coercive marriage arrangement, family manipulation, and explicit consensual sexual content.

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Romantic Suspense

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⚠ Content warnings: Coercive Control, Criminal Activity, death, Explicit Content, Family Dysfunction, Manipulation, Violence

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