The Moon and Her Waters

"If I let you go..."

"...will you stop looking for me?"

He smiled, but there was heartbreak in it.

"Little tide..." he whispered.

"I've been looking for you since before my name was mine."

Soriya has spent her entire life dismissing the old stories whispered by the village elders-the women who insist the rivers remember, the moon is always listening, and something ancient still waits beneath the tide.

But as her twenty-fifth birthday draws near, sleep no longer offers rest.

Each night, she dreams of a woman cloaked in moonlight, of wolves running through forgotten forests, and of a love story so old the world itself has tried to bury it.

Far from the coast, the heir to the Wolf Kingdom prepares for the final trials that will crown him king. Bound by duty, haunted by instincts he cannot explain, he begins to sense a presence that calls to something deep within him... something older than blood, older than the throne itself.

As strange tides rise, forgotten legends awaken, and enemies long thought lost begin to stir, Soriya finds herself standing at the center of a history no one remembers-but one the sea has never forgotten.

Some love stories are written in the stars.

Theirs was carved into the tides.