For thirty-four years Rose Angel has drawn want from every man who looks at her and never understood why.
An invitation from the drowned Court of Tides takes her into a city lit from underneath, where that gift does nothing and no one turns her way.
She finds her mother's rooms exactly as they were left, and with them a document signed nine months before her birth that lists her as payment.
Her mother had held one of nine gates at the bottom of the world before walking away, and the sea has been going dark ever since.
Elias Vale is still the only man her power has never touched, the reason for it bought and paid for centuries ago, while the water rises against a coastal town that cannot see the danger and something that has held a broken gate shut on its own for thirty-four years feels her arrive.
