Strange Tides (unfinished)

Thank you to everyone who loved and read this story, but I'm leaving Wattpad as a writer for good. This story won't continue to be written, but feel free to enjoy what I had written of it. One day I plan to remake this story and others into a comic or a graphic novel, and when that happens I'll let you all know here. <3

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When Esme is a child, her mother--the queen of Flucht--dies mysteriously on the beach. The death is immediately blamed on sea serpents, ocean-dwelling cousins of dragons that are infamous for being violently unpredictable and attacking coastal cities. Esme takes to sleeping around as she gets older, hoping to fill the hole in her heart, but only ends up tearing it more.

When she finds a serpent hatchling washed up on the beach and can't bring herself to kill it, Esme decides to raise it as an ally of Diella instead of an enemy. With the serpent she raises and a certain foreign prince with an odd choice in weaponry, she finds herself less empty than before.

But as she learns more about the true nature of the sea serpents, old matters don't make as much sense as they used to, and Esme starts asking questions nobody else dared to.

Why would a serpent attack a human unprovoked?

Was her mother's death on the beach truly an accident, or was it murder?

And what if she's next?

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cover by @CarKann