MAXIEDAWRITER
"The first thing Lyra notices is that Isaac Hawthorn does not scream when he realizes what she is.
He bleeds, yes.
He trembles.
His pulse betrays him like a drum calling predators home. But he looks at her with awe instead of fear, and that is far more dangerous.
Sirens are taught that humans are fragile things. Soft. Breakable. Meant to be pulled under and forgotten. Yet Isaac lingers at the shoreline night after night, drawn by a voice that was never meant to spare him. He plays music into the dark, and Lyra listens with blood still on her hands.
She has tasted his fear. She has marked him. She has imagined the sound he would make if she finished what she started.
And still, she hesitates.
The sea whispers that he belongs to it. The prince watches her too closely. Her mother smells disobedience in the water. Loving a human is not forbidden because it is rare-it is forbidden because it ends in slaughter.
Some loves drown slowly. Others are dragged under screaming.
And Lyra is running out of time to decide which one this will be."
Lyra, a fierce and unpredictable siren, has lived for over a century, hunting not just for survival but for the thrill of the chase. Courted by the perfect-but painfully obedient-prince, she longs for freedom and the unpredictable sparks of life above the water.
Isaac Hawthorn, a kind-hearted, golden-boy human, finds solace in music, family, and the calm of the ocean-never imagining that the very waves he loves hold a predator centuries old. When a haunting melody draws him into the water, he encounters a creature as mesmerizing as she is deadly.
What begins as instinct and curiosity soon becomes something more-a dangerous, intoxicating romance where boundaries blur, and love is as deep and unpredictable as the sea itself.