The Leviathan's Daughter

Ninety percent of the ocean has never been seen by human eyes. Something down there has been watching us back.

When the destroyer USS Meridian sails into a storm that comes out of a clear sky, every compass on board starts to spin. When the storm clears, the ship is gone.

Naval surgeon Elias Crane wakes on a shore that exists on no map. It is one of seven hidden islands that have stayed out of sight since the age of myth, protected by a wall of cold air, a field that blinds satellites, and a pact older than history. Their people breathe water, call down storms and bend the magnetic field of the earth. And they have one law: no outsider leaves with his memory.

Maren is the daughter of the Sea Queen and of something far older beneath the waves. She sang the song that sank his ship. She is meant to guard him. She is not meant to want him.

Elias has spent his life taking things apart to see how they work. Maren is the first thing he cannot explain, and the longer he studies her, the harder it is to remember which of them is the captive.

Outside the veil, a Marine who survived the wreck is telling a story no one believes. In a basement lab in Washington, a scientist has heard the sea talk back. And somewhere in orbit, a satellite is waiting for the four seconds that will change everything.

The Leviathan's Daughter is the first book in the Sevenfold Sea series. It is a sweeping, slow-burn dark romantasy built on real ocean science and ancient sea legends: forbidden love, a captive and his guard, morally grey rulers, and a hidden world on the brink of discovery.

For readers 18+. Contains explicit scenes.