Mira has spent her life caught between two worlds and accepted by neither. Her mother was a siren who returned to the sea. Her father was a pirate who died before he could come back for her. Mira inherited the blood of both, but not the tail or power she was promised. When the notorious Blackwake and its captain, Ronan, pull her into a dangerous voyage, she expects another form of captivity. Instead, she finds a crew that fears sirens, a ship following impossible magic, and a captain who trusts her only as far as survival requires. Ronan needs what Mira may be able to do with the sea. Mira needs answers about the part of herself that has never awakened. Neither needs the attraction growing between them. The closer the Blackwake follows the mysterious Silverwake across hostile waters, the harder it becomes to maintain the line between prisoner, crew member, and something far more personal. Pirates have lost loved ones to sirens. Sirens have been hunted, bled, and sold by humans. Every act of trust carries the weight of generations of hatred. And Ronan is hiding his own secret, a curse tied to the monster he fights not to become. Mira should fear him. Ronan should never let a siren close enough to matter. Yet storms, hunters, betrayals, and the call of the sea keep forcing them to choose each other when it counts. To discover what she truly is, Mira must embrace both halves of the heritage she has spent years questioning. But the sea gives nothing without taking something in return, and the farther the Blackwake sails, the more dangerous the price becomes. Somewhere beyond the next horizon waits the truth about Mira's power, Ronan's curse, and whether a pirate and a siren can trust love more than the stories that taught them to be enemies.
Mira has spent her life caught between two worlds and accepted by neither. Her mother was a siren who returned to the sea. Her father was a pirate who died before he could come back for her. Mira inherited the blood of both, but not the tail or power she was promised. When the notorious Blackwake...