In a drowned world where emotions are outlawed and love is punishable by death, Nereya-a cold, calculated rebel nurse-survives by suppressing every trace of feeling. Raised in the sunken ruins of Lys, she runs an illegal clinic beneath the surface, smuggling forbidden "emotion serums" to those desperate to feel anything at all. But when Cassian, a government enforcer with secrets of his own, is sent to monitor her, cracks begin to form in Nereya's carefully controlled life. He's calm. Deadly. And uncomfortably human. Worse-he makes her feel. When her buried powers awaken during a failed execution, the city turns on her. The regime brands her as a sea-born - a child of the ancient drowned gods. Now hunted, Nereya must choose: trust the enemy who defies his own orders to protect her... or make a deal with a dark sea god who promises vengeance, power, and survival - at the cost of her soul. But there's one rule she cannot break: If she falls in love... the sea will claim them both.
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