Elara faces total betrayal when her jealous sister locks her into an iron cage and her own father commands royal archers to execute her as an offering. Rather than pleading with her murderous kin, she clasps the outstretched hand of a terrifying, scarred leviathan emerging from the deep. Banished to the ocean trenches as a sacrificial offering, Elara discovers her monstrous husband is actually Nerion, the ancient sovereign of the oceanic abyss, who awakens to his full godly stature the moment she shields him from harm.
Now revered as queen over subterranean depths, Elara refuses to simply enjoy her divine throne while her buried mother languishes in captive torment. With stolen sea artifacts driving surface monarchs and trench forces toward cataclysmic bloodshed, Elara must master primordial tidal magic. She wages a war on two fronts, defying both human emperors and immortal sea lords to enact her ultimate reckoning.
