THE SALT CAGE

She was collared to keep her silent. He was crowned to keep her caged.

In the Tidefall Empire, the sea rises a little higher every season, swallowing streets, shrines, and the people too poor to climb away from it. In the flooded slums of the Low Tides, Kaelen Vance survives as a thief with iron runes locked around her throat. Like every siren-born child, she was collared at twelve and forbidden to sing.

Then she steals a whalebone map from a noble's auction and walks straight into a trap.

Soren Avenant, Tidelord of Tidefall, offers her a choice: hang at noon, or become his bride by blood oath and guide him to the Eye of the Abyss, a relic said to hold back the drowning sea. Kaelen agrees, already planning his death. But the oath binds more than their names. Now she feels everything he feels, and he feels her pain as his own.

As they sail toward the drowned capital of her people, the lies of an empire begin to surface: the true purpose of the collars, the fate of the sister the Crown took from her, and what the Eye has been feeding on for three hundred years.

Every song has a price. To save the coast, Kaelen will have to give up the one thing she never meant to give at all.

A lush, slow-burn enemies-to-lovers romantasy of siren magic, forbidden songs, and a love that must be chosen twice. Book One of the Tidefall Cycle.