The Night Tithe

Every seven years, the city of Varrow walks a bride into the sea.

None of them have ever come back.

When her fourteen-year-old sister's name is drawn in the Lottery, smuggler Brynn Calder does the unthinkable: she takes her place. She goes into the black water in white silk with a saltglass knife strapped to her arm and one plan-find the Drowned King who took her mother, and kill him.

But the Lord of the Undertide isn't the monster from the nursery tales. Aurek is a cursed prince slowly turning to coral, holding back the ocean from a drowned city with what's left of his life. And he swears no bride has reached him in seventy years.

Not one. Not even her mother.

So where did they go?

Trapped beneath the waves until the next full tide, Brynn finds a forbidden magic waking in her blood, a court on the edge of collapse, and a king she's starting to want far more than she wants him dead. Above them, the sea is rising, and the men who run Varrow have been hiding a terrible secret.

They want Brynn's power. They want Aurek's throne. And they're coming for her sister next.

THE NIGHT TITHE is a standalone dark fantasy romance with an enemies-to-lovers slow burn, a sacrificial bride, a cursed sea king, a drowned kingdom, and a guaranteed happily-ever-after.