“Three cursed captains. Three women forged in a god’s design. One ocean where the bonds were never supposed to form — and the deity who built the trap is listening.”
Songs of the Deep is a dark oceanic romantasy trilogy set in the Shadowtide Sea, where a malevolent deity called the Tidebinder has spent decades building traps from cursed captains, collared assassins, and living weapons. Each book follows a different couple bound by accidental blood magic — bonds the god never designed, forged in the depths of the Abyssal Trench, and weaponised against the creator who thought suffering was the only architecture that held.
Captive of the Tide opens with a grief-hardened siren who chains his mark instead of killing her — and discovers their bond is the first weapon the god cannot read. Wraith of the Waves sends an assassin to board a suicidal captain’s ship — and gives them a blood-binding, a ticking deadline, and a fortress to assault. Bound by the Deep closes the trilogy with a god’s perfect weapon who captures the bait — and learns that choice is the one thing her maker forgot to design against.
Written in alternating first-person POV, the series pairs morally grey heroes with heroines who defy divine architecture. The bonds are magical. The heat is explicit. The ocean is trying to kill them. And the god who built the trap discovers that love is the one design flaw he cannot fix.
Book 1 — Captive of the Tide (Thalia & Calder)
“When a vengeance-hunting siren chains the cursed captain who has been hunting his god, the bond they accidentally forge becomes the only weapon that can wound the deity who slaughtered his pod.”
For seventy years, Calder Tidemark has been the only predator in the Abyssal Trench that matters — a siren hardened by grief, hunting every cursed sea-captain the Tidebinder uses as bait. Then his latest mark turns out to be Thalia Corsair, a defiant Stormweaver captain with the rarest blood in the Shadowtide Sea, and the only mortal who has been hunting the god back. He should kill her. He chains her instead.
In the silence of his coral palace, the curse forges a bond between them that the Tidebinder never designed for — they can feel each other across leagues, fight as one, and walk currents the god cannot read. But Thalia’s curse is consuming her by the year, and the deity who built the trap has been listening for seventy years.
To wound a god built on suffering, Calder will have to choose what he loves more: the dead he is still avenging, or the woman who has finally given him a reason to live.
Alternating First Person (Thalia & Calder) • HEA
Book 2 — Wraith of the Waves (Nerida & Kael)
“When a suicidal cursed captain hunting the god who murdered his crew is boarded by the assassin sent to silence him, the blood-binding they accidentally forge becomes the only weapon that can break a divine cage from the inside.”
Kael Stormwright should be dead. Four years ago, the deity his cult calls the Warden — the Tidebinder — slaughtered his crew of eighteen while leaving Kael alive to remember every face. He has been hunting the god ever since, the eighteen voices in his head agreeing with him most days that he should already have joined them.
Nerida Deepcurrent has worn the Warden’s collar for twenty-three years — first because the god held her parents, then because he held her sister Lyric. She has been ordered to silence the cursed captain whose questions are getting too close to home. She finds Kael laughing at her blade, bargains with him instead, and strikes a blood-binding in the depths of the Abyssal Trench when the alternative is being crushed to pulp.
The binding gives them empathy at distance, tactical merge at proximity, and a weaponised resonance neither of them has the vocabulary for yet. It also tells the Warden, immediately and exactly, where they are. Now they have a deadline that keeps shortening — three days, eighteen hours, seven minutes — to assault a fortress that has been waiting for them, free a hostage who has been waiting longer, and turn a god’s own design against him.
Choosing to live for someone else. Trauma meeting the right kind of witness. And a love that is the one thing a god built on suffering cannot absorb.
Alternating First Person (Nerida & Kael) • HEA
Book 3 — Bound by the Deep (Maris & Dorian)
“When a god’s perfect weapon is ordered to capture a cursed sea-captain as bait for the rebellion, the bond she accidentally forms with him ignites the one thing her creator never designed her to have — choice.”
Maris Abyssal was made. Twenty-three years ago, the Tidebinder built her in a chamber of black coral and silver veins, named her, marked her, and gave her one purpose: to be the perfect weapon. She has executed his targets, surveyed his enemies, and reported in clipped tactical syntax. She has never wanted anything. She has not known how.
Then her latest mission lands. Capture Captain Dorian Wavecrest. Use him as bait. Lure the rebellion. Watch what happens. Dorian is sardonic, cursed, and the only mortal in living memory to survive what the god did to his crew. He looks at Maris like she is a person. He asks her if she has ever chosen anything. Her tactical processing returns no answer — but the maker-marks beneath her skin begin to do something they were never designed to do.
A bond forms. The god feels it before they do. He is dying, the convergence is in seven days, and he will turn the entire ocean into ash before he loses his grip on the only piece of himself that ever truly obeyed.
But Maris is learning what the architecture of her own creation actually does. And when she rips out the maker-marks with her own hands, she is not breaking herself. She is choosing what she was always supposed to be.
Alternating First Person (Maris & Dorian) • HEA
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