Kings and Queens rise and fall, loyalties collide, and romance blooms in a world where the sea is rising—and cannot be escaped.

Khosa is Given to the Sea, a girl born to be fed to the water, her flesh preventing a wave like the one that destroyed the Kingdom of Stille in days of old.

Vincent is third in line to inherit his throne, royalty in a kingdom where the old linger and the young inherit only boredom.

Dara and Donil are the last of the Indiri, a native race whose dwindling magic grows weaker as the island country fades.

Witt leads the Pietra, their army the only family he has ever known. The stone shores harbor a secret, a growing threat that will envelop the entire land.

The tides are turning in Stille, where royals scheme, Pietrans march, and the rising sea calls for its Given.