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In a world carved by gods and governed by prophecy, seventeen-year-old Aerin Thalen is a girl shaped by duty-and suffocating beneath it. Betrothed to a stranger and dressed like a relic, Aerin is expected to smile, bow, and burn quietly. But the gods aren't silent, and neither is fate.
Haunted by whispers in the wind and driven by a pulsing pendant left by her mother, Aerin flees the gilded cage of her house-and stumbles into the forgotten shrines of vanished deities, the remnants of old magic, and a war between belief and freedom.
Meanwhile, Kael, a prince turned wanderer, seeks his vanished sister and the truth buried beneath her disappearance. Their paths are stitched together by myth, memory, and the dangerous idea that choice is the most powerful force of all.
When fire meets tide, can either remain unchanged?