14 parts Ongoing MatureThe sea gave her freedom.
The sea took it away.
Lyriana of the Coral Court has always belonged to the ocean-fierce, wild, and untamable. But when her mother, the Sea Queen, orders her to marry a prince she doesn't love, Lyriana flees her kingdom in search of her own destiny. She dreams of freedom beyond duty and thrones, but freedom comes with a price.
Caught in a storm above the reef, Lyriana is trapped in a fisherman's net and dragged aboard the Sea Serpent, a pirate ship commanded by Captain Rowan Blackthorn-a man known across kingdoms for chasing legends, not obeying laws. Fierce, clever, and haunted by secrets of his own, Rowan sees in Lyriana not a monster to fear but a mystery to claim.
Imprisoned far from the water that gives her life, Lyriana must fight to survive among men who see her as treasure, a weapon, or a curse. But as she learns more about Rowan, she discovers he's searching for something deeper than gold-something the sea itself may have hidden.
As their worlds collide, old myths rise again. Curses stir beneath the waves. A power older than both sea and sky begins to awaken.
Torn between hatred and a strange pull toward her captor, Lyriana faces an impossible choice:
Escape back to the sea and abandon everything she's begun to feel...
or risk her heart-and her freedom-to uncover the truth about the tides that bind them.
Because some bonds aren't made by chains.
They're made by the sea.
