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The Devil's Sacrament
  1. 1. The Decrypted Ledger
  2. 2. Across the Raging Minch
  3. 3. The Iron Gate of Morven
  4. 4. The Midnight Siphon
  5. 5. Tasting the Fire
  6. 6. Blood and Velvet 🔒
  7. 7. The Morning Treaty 🔒
  8. 8. The Scriptorium of Shadows 🔒
  9. 9. The Armory and the Claymore 🔒
  10. 10. Raid on the Smuggler's Barge 🔒
  11. 11. The Traitor's Confession 🔒
  12. 12. Before the Great Hearth 🔒
  13. 13. Unvarnished Hunger 🔒
  14. 14. The Winter Solstice Ultimatum 🔒
  15. 15. The Fog of the Minch 🔒
  16. 16. The Decoy of Gull Rock 🔒
  17. 17. Artillery over the Breakers 🔒
  18. 18. Breach at the Lower Seawall 🔒
  19. 19. The Clifftop Stand 🔒
  20. 20. The Captured War Chest 🔒
  21. 21. Vows in Ash and Salt 🔒
  22. 22. The High Council of Morven 🔒
  23. 23. The Voyage to the Forth 🔒
  24. 24. Shadows over Edinburgh 🔒
  25. 25. The Gala of the Hollow Crown 🔒
  26. 26. The Mask Drops 🔒
  27. 27. The Clifftop Pursuit 🔒
  28. 28. Retribution on Arthur's Seat 🔒
  29. 29. The Return of Sinclair Hall 🔒
  30. 30. The Charter of the Isles 🔒
  31. 31. The Clifftop Proposal 🔒
  32. 32. The Royal Wedding of Morven 🔒
  33. 33. A Sacrament in Silk and Fire 🔒
  34. 34. The Spring Fleet 🔒
  35. 35. The Heirs of Morven 🔒

Chapter 18

Breach at the Lower Seawall

The Devil's Sacrament · Vivienne Leclair · 5 min read

The subterranean sea gate of Morven Keep was an amphitheater of slaughter. The colossal iron portcullis that guarded the entrance to the inner harbor had been lowered, but the armored prow of the *Nemesis*’s lead landing craft had driven straight into the timber boom at thirty knots, detonating a massive charge of guncotton that blew the central iron bars off their hinges in a shower of twisted metal and flying…

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