The Tide Bride's Second Vow
An Epic Fantasy Romance

About this book:

Mara of House Elid was the Tide Bride—chosen by the currents, crowned in sea-glass, and betrayed by the man she was born to wed. Five years ago, Caspar of Rann invaded on the night of their vows, slaughtered her family, and cast her adrift in a broken skiff. She survived on the mainland, scraping hides and burying her magic beneath dust and silence. But the islands are dying. The coral throne weeps black sap, the reefs are crumbling into the abyss, and the sea no longer answers a usurper's call. Caspar has sent for her not with a sword, but with a desperate bargain: a second vow. An ancient rite of iron and salt that will bind their houses—and their blood—to the drowning shelf. If she refuses, the archipelago vanishes beneath the waves. If she accepts, she must share a crown with the only man she has sworn to kill.

Trapped in a citadel where the tide rises through the cellar floors and the Coral Throne rots like a gangrened limb, Mara and Caspar circle each other with blades drawn and old wounds raw. He is a king drowning in consequences he never believed in; she is a queen who knows the ocean remembers every broken promise. As southern warlords circle and deep-water gods wake in the trenches, the only force that can hold the islands together is a marriage built on hatred, sealed in blood, and witnessed by powers that do not forgive. But the rite demands more than signatures—it demands surrender. And in the dark beneath the spire, something older than kingdoms is listening to the rhythm of two hearts beating in the dark.

*The Tide Bride's Second Vow* is a lush, high-stakes fantasy romance where enemies become reluctant allies, ancient magic demands a terrible price, and a sinking world hangs on the knife-edge of a promise neither dares to break. For readers who crave atmospheric worldbuilding, simmering tension, and a love story forged in the crushing depths of betrayal and redemption.