Salt by Liz Shipton

Twenty years after the pandemic that nearly wiped out humanity, seventeen-year-old trainwreck Bird Howsley is struggling to find her place.

In a world mostly underwater—beset not just by pandemics but by climate change too—sailing isn’t just a pastime: it’s the way of life. Unfortunately, Bird is a terrible sailor, with a drinking habit to boot.

But when a message from her long-lost brother sets Bird on a quest for answers about herself, she puts herself and her best friend Sargo in the crosshairs of a deadly underground organization.

Forced to flee, they sail into the Salt, where they battle treacherous seas, make shady deals with pirates, and discover that the organization they’re running from goes deeper than either of them suspected.

Category: Science Fiction – Dystopian

After bartering passage back to Alluvium, a step too far with Savage and a run-in with her brother Shale have Bird again fleeing for her life and wondering who she can trust.

When she learns that Sargo may have been taken to Grike, eight thousand miles west across the Salt, Bird decides to undertake a dangerous solo journey to get him back.

In the process, she uncovers a deadly secret that upends everything she thought she knew about Zenith, the Anonymity, and her place in the world.