First love, old legends, dangerous secrets beneath the waves.
In a small island town shaped by whispered legends, Hallie Spooner’s family is known for believing in impossible creatures, especially her father, who’s ridiculed for insisting the sea holds secrets no one wants to admit.
Hallie has spent her life trying, and failing, not to believe. Not in magic. Not in myths. Not in anything that would dare set her apart. Then a boy drifts into town one summer, restless and fleeting as the tide, and she lets herself fall into the beautiful uncertainty of first love. It’s intoxicating, and far more dangerous than she realizes.
As Hallie navigates the trials and tribulations of this first love, her brother uncovers unsettling truths about their family’s past; truths that suggest the island’s legends are more than superstition. When old loyalties surface, and long forgotten secrets rise up from the depths, Hallie finds herself caught in the crosshairs of a perilous game driven by greed and revenge, forced to confront the reality of lost love and a legacy she never asked to inherit.
Some stories don’t stay buried,
and the sea has a way of calling back its own.
