The Salt Road (The Seven Keys of Saint Aurelia #3)

In the spring of 1294,

Lucetta Verani

and her companions possess three of the seven iron keys once held by the vanished Confraternity of Saint Aurelia.

Their next trail leads into a world of Adriatic merchants, rival heirs, salt warehouses, customs officials, coastal vessels, and old debts that powerful families would rather leave buried.

The missing Shipmaster’s Key should have passed through a respected merchant family.

Instead, two branches claim it, neither can prove possession, and the formidable Beatrice d’Orsenna arrives with papers supporting a third inheritance claim.

Even Corrado Salviati, usually Lucetta’s commercial adversary, sees enough danger to propose a temporary alliance.

When crucial evidence disappears during a lawful customs inspection, the search becomes a pursuit through working harbors and hidden freight routes.

A violent storm drives the company onto an island, where Brother Odelin uncovers a burial record that points toward a dead custodian, an iron-bound strongbox, and a fortified harbor already preparing for conflict.

Lucetta must untangle generations of contradictory documents while

Bertran tries to keep the company alive long enough for truth to matter. With the harbor gates closing and every claimant converging on the same prize, recovering the fourth key may prove easier than escaping with it.