What the Deep Demands

Her people's freedom. Her sisters' voices. Her whole world back. The price: him.

Sereth is the Unsung now - cut from her court's chorus for the bond she never asked for, hunted by two worlds beside the only man who ever gave her a name instead of a bounty. The orders want them dead. The founding city of Vess wants something worse: it wants what's drowned in Cathedral Deep, and it has been interrogating captive sirens for three generations to find it.

The trail leads into the flooded archives - to a photograph that shouldn't exist, a face that looks like hers, and the truth the knight-orders built their holy war to bury: the sirens didn't come from the deep. They came from us.

And something vast at the bottom of the world is done waiting. It calls itself owed. It speaks in borrowed voices - and it makes Sereth an offer no exile could refuse: her court, her chorus, her sisters restored. All she has to do is sever the bond.

Severing the bond will kill Rook.

Fated mates tested to breaking. The reveal that recodes everything. A choice that will wreck you - and a last chapter you'll want a friend on standby for.

Adult dark romantasy. Open-door, slow burn. Book Two of a completed trilogy - the HEA is coming, but this is the book where it costs. Cliffhanger warning: the author regrets nothing.