SwiftSpirit
Sam never expected to survive the place meant to measure her breaking point. Thrown into a covert detention facility disguised as a research vessel, she endures psychological experiments designed to exploit fear, guilt, and memory. There she meets Teresa-guarded, razor-sharp, and carrying ghosts of her own-and the two form a bond that begins in tension and hardens into something unshakable. When a riot fractures the system holding them captive, Sam and Teresa help transform a desperate escape into something far more dangerous: a tactical unit known as the Castoffs, dedicated to dismantling the shadow network that created them.
As the Castoffs wage precise, calculated rescues across open water, they become a whispered promise to the imprisoned and a growing threat to those in power. But battle does not only come from enemies, and the sea itself proves just as merciless as any captor. When a violent storm tears through their mission and scatters everything Sam has built, survival becomes deeply personal once more. Stranded between the life she escaped and the family she chose, Sam must decide what freedom truly means-and whether some bonds are strong enough to outlast even the tide.