Some things you don't keep and you don't burn. You salt them - and you stand in the barren place after and call it mercy.
A smiling man on the far side of the world has reached across an ocean and touched the one thing Nicki Jo Burkhart swore she'd keep safe: her people. He doesn't threaten. He pays off
her mortgage. He sends a jar of sourdough to her shelf. He shows her, gently, that he can reach anyone she loves - and that the only way to make him stop is to give him the thing her
dead uncle spent his whole life hiding.
Following the cipher to the salt country of southern France, Nicki learns at last what her uncle's hidden network truly is - and that her own clever plan to dissolve it forever is the
exact trap the smiling man built for her. She must decide what she can keep, what she has to let go, and what a person becomes when saving is already off the table.
Salt the Earth is the third Nicki Jo Burkhart novel.