Breaking the TidesSome bargains are paid in blood. Others are paid in souls. Princess Seren was born to navigate by starlight and rule the Starfall Isles. Instead, her father's desperate bargain ten years ago sold her future to save their dying kingdom. Now the price has come due. On her wedding day, Seren sees what her father cannot. Prince Kaimana is no man at all, but a hollow puppet animated by fae magic. Purple threads of corruption spread from him to her father, to her people, binding them all. The wedding isn't salvation. It's a slow takeover, and her kingdom has already been claimed from within. When Seren flees, she breaks the bargain. But broken fae bargains still demand a price. Armed with her grandmother's cryptic warnings and desperate hope, Seren sails beyond the known world in search of the only weapon that can sever fae magic: a god-forged blade hidden in the divine realm. But even if she finds it, returning home means facing an impossible choice and discovering the price of what freedom truly cost.