The Tidemarked

When Wynne Calder drags a pale stranger from the storm-tossed cove, she finds a drowned boy's handprint branded into his chest, and with it, the unraveling of a covenant her bloodline has kept for generations. Caelith Vesh speaks in fragments of an old debt owed to the sea, of a Sleeper stirring beneath the treacherous Skaar's Teeth, and of Vethra, the sea-serpent who collects the names of those she is owed. As the tide-marked dead begin to walk the shore and Oren Vassk's hunters descend upon the coast seeking the Stranger's head, Wynne and her brother Bram are forced to confront the legacy their mother died to bury. With Maren Soolin and the Soolin Marrow harboring their own grudges against the deep, and ancient powers waking in the brine, Wynne must decide what she is willing to sacrifice to keep the sea from claiming its due. The tide is rising, the dead are restless, and the price of every secret is written in salt and bone.