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He was born to unite the clans. She was raised to destroy him. Neither expected to save each other.
Kaito, the prophesied Tideborn, grows up under the weight of destiny-trained in diplomacy, tide-reading, and the impossible task of bringing peace to six warring clans. His father teaches him that power isn't taking, but giving others a reason to follow. But when assassins come for his family and war erupts across the lands, Kaito must become the leader he was born to be-even as grief threatens to drown him.
Ayana has known only one truth: she is her father's weapon. Raised in shadows by the brutal Kaze warlord Kazuya, she's trained from childhood to kill without hesitation, to bury her humanity behind a porcelain mask. But when she's ordered to assassinate Kaito's father, something inside her fractures-and for the first time in her life, she chooses to defy.
Their paths collide by a moonlit river during a fragile peace summit. Neither reveals their true identity, but in stolen conversations under starlight, they find what they've been missing: someone who sees them not as prophecy or weapon, but as human. When Ayana fails her mission and flees her father's wrath, she makes an impossible choice-to stand with the boy who showed her kindness, even if it costs her everything.
As war consumes the clans and an ancient artifact-the Scroll of Command-threatens to give Kazuya absolute control, Kaito and Ayana must navigate brutal battles, political betrayals, and impossible choices. To stop her father and end the war, Ayana infiltrates his fortress for a final confrontation. But victory comes at a devastating price, and the prophecy that bound Kaito's fate demands a sacrifice neither of them saw coming.
TIDEBORN is an epic fantasy of prophecy and free will, where two souls marked by fate discover that the hardest battle isn't against enemies-it's choosing between duty and love, between destiny and freedom.
©️ Relle H