“Two women. Two predators of the deep. One cursed coastline where love is the only thing hungrier than the sea.”
Off the cliffs of Morrowmere, the water keeps what it takes. For centuries the sea has fed on sailors, on saints, on the daughters of the lighthouse who were promised young to the things that live beneath the tide. Now the old bargains are breaking. The creatures that once sang men to their deaths are walking the shore in bodies they stole, bodies they built, bodies they are learning to love in.
Tides of Ruin is a gothic monster romance duology about monstrous devotion and the women brave enough to meet it. Expect cursed coastline atmosphere, tender brutality, and heroines who stop asking whether the thing loving them is safe — and start asking whether it is theirs.
Book One — Wrecked (Kaida & Kael)
“She pulled him from the wreck to save his life. The thing he was, the thing he had always been, would decide whether he ever let her leave.”
Kaida has kept her father’s lighthouse since she was old enough to climb the stairs, and she has buried every sailor the sea has spat back since she was old enough to hold a shovel. Morrowmere is a town that does not ask questions about the tide, and Kaida has learned not to answer them.
Then a storm drags a body onto her rocks that is not quite a body — too still, too beautiful, the wrong kind of wrong — and instead of calling the priest, she drags him into her cellar and lies to her own hands about why.
Kael has been circling her coastline for longer than she has been alive. He remembers her grandmother. He remembers the bargain her family made with the deep, and the debt still owed. When the village realises what she is hiding — when her father’s old crew comes for the creature she has started calling by name — Kaida has to choose between the daylight she was raised to protect and the dark-water devotion that has decided she belongs to it.
Worse — she has to decide whether she agrees. It ends with a lit lighthouse, a cleared cellar, and a woman who chooses the tide on her own terms.
Alternating First Person (Kaida & Kael) • HEA
Book Two — Drowned (Nerida & Lysander)
“He remembers her from a life she was never supposed to have. She is about to remember him right back — and decide whether the man who has been keeping her is also the man keeping her alive.”
Nerida wakes on a cliffside estate she has no memory of reaching, nursed back from the edge of the water by a man whose household runs on rules she cannot parse and whose eyes follow her like he is terrified she will forget again. Lysander tells her she is the only survivor of a sister-ship that went down off the Morrowmere coast. He does not tell her that he was there. He does not tell her that he was there for her.
As Nerida’s strength returns, so does the pull of the tide beneath the house — and the dreams of a girl named Isolde who wore her face in another life. When Kaida arrives from the lighthouse with answers Lysander has been burying for a century, Nerida has to untangle which of her memories are hers, which belong to the sea, and which were written into her by the man who loves her too much to let her know what he is.
Drowned is obsessive, gothic, identity-haunted romance at its most tender and most unsettling. It is a book about being loved by someone with a longer memory than you — and about choosing, eyes open, to be the one who ends the loop.
It ends with a drained cove, a returned name, and a woman who stops being a reincarnation and starts being herself.
Alternating First Person (Nerida & Lysander) • HEA • Duology Conclusion
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