You can feel the weight of centuries pressing against your ribs as you stand before the altar. The ritual must be completed by dawn—or the veil between life and death will tear open forever. Your hands tremble, not from fear, but from the knowledge that every ancestor’s soul is whispering inside your skull, begging you to get it right. One mistake, and you won’t just fail. You’ll become what you’re trying to stop.

Abandoned at an orphanage, Noelle dreams of freedom. But on her 18th birthday, fate intervenes, thrusting her into a terrifying ritual: a sacrifice to the mysterious, naked, and undeniably handsome King of the Sea. Trapped in an underwater realm with a King who is both infuriatingly rude and inexplicably drawn to her, Noelle must navigate a world of ancient curses, hidden powers, and dark secrets. Will she uncover the truth of her past, break a 3000-year-old curse, and find love in the most unexpected of places, or will she become another one of the lost women of the Sea Realm?