She walked from her own hanging. Now, she haunts empires.**

Spring, 1749. Kit Valentine-former actress, fugitive, and the woman the broadsheets call The Phantom-sets her sights on Cádiz, the glittering heart of Atlantic corruption. With her lover Finn at her side and the enigmatic privateer Mendoza as her uneasy ally, she plans a raid that will expose the East India Company's darkest secret: a silent partner known only as El Silencio... her own cousin, Edmund Vale.

From the fog-shrouded docks of Spain to the rebel-filled pines of Carolina, from Maroon sanctuaries in Jamaica to the gallows-ready streets of London, Kit wages a war not for gold-but for names, for justice, for the souls erased by greed. But as betrayals mount and the Company tightens its net, Kit must decide: is she a ghost of vengeance... or the architect of a new world?

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Seraphina Sinclair writes bold, intoxicating historical fiction where danger and desire walk hand-in-hand. Her critically acclaimed Phantom Chronicles series plunges readers into the gin-soaked shadows of 18th-century Europe, where master thief and folk legend Kit Valentine outwits empires with nothing but a razor wit, a stolen unicorn talisman, and a black silk ribbon hiding secrets even her lovers dare not touch.

A former stage actress turned clandestine storyteller, Seraphina draws on history's forgotten rebels to craft tales of fierce women who rewrite their fate?one heist, one kiss, one betrayal at a time. Her books blend meticulously researched period detail with open-door romance, slow-burn tension, and the kind of loyalty that survives hangings, drownings, and heartbreak.

When not plotting heists or tracing scars in candlelight, she haunts old bookshops and collects antique lockpicks. She lives with her rescue greyhound somewhere between Edinburgh and imagination.