Long-buried secrets demand to be uncovered—but the truth could destroy a kingdom.
Sereia Gaiano was raised to inherit a kingdom that survives by sacrificing its own. Every year, the sea demands blood during the Black Tide. Every year, her people obey. As heir to Drakcultus, Sereia has been taught that their survival depends on it.
But as the anniversary of Silvamare’s destruction approaches, fear and grief spread through the realm—and cracks begin to form in everything Sereia has been taught to believe. Haunted by impossible visions and drawn to a masked stranger with dangerous questions of his own, Sereia enlists the few people she trusts to follow a trail through forgotten ruins and forbidden histories towards a revelation more dangerous than divine wrath.
In Drakcultus, questioning the gods is dangerous. Questioning the king is treason.
Killer of Kin. Feller of Kingdoms. The prophecy has haunted Sereia since childhood–and the closer she comes to the truth, the less it feels like a curse she can escape and the more it resembles a promise she may be forced to fulfill.
Sereia must decide what she’s willing to sacrifice to expose the lie–before the Black Tide rises again and drags everyone she loves into the depths.
