Essere, the City of Dreams. Where every tide brings Death to shore. The women of Aeaedos are being taken. Mothers and daughters, sisters and wives gone. Only to return by the sea, mutilated beyond recognition and stripped of the essence of who they once were in bouts of crimson and seaweed. No one knows the cause of the disappearances, the identity of the threat, or where they are being held. All they know is that there is a possibility of them being next. Circe Andreus, a Dreamer, refuses to watch as another loved one is taken away from her. She lives for one thing: her younger sister, Cyla. To raise her somewhere she doesn't have to fear leaving her side. Or fear coming home to find her gone, like their mother. Her dreams of fleeing this cursed kingdom hang just beyond her reach. So close she can almost taste it. What will Circe do when the call of the sea comes rushing to their doors?