Along the Carolina Lowcountry, the water keeps receipts. Salvage law, family history, and old coastal magic overlap until ownership becomes a dangerous question: who found it, who lost it, and what has been waiting beneath it?

The Salvage Claims follows people who recover more than objects. Every claim exposes another seam between the ordinary coast and the cryptid world beneath it, where beauty can be bait and restoration can become a form of trespass.

Key threads: coastal claims, drowned histories, dangerous beauty, recovery, family debts, and the living geography of the Carolina Lowlands.