Beta ARC Changing Tides

He was supposed to kill her family.

She was supposed to die.

Years ago, Cass-son of the Sea King-was sent to poison the royal family. He couldn't do it. The girl who snuck into his cell each night to sing him stories made sure of that. Now disgraced and cast aside, Cass roams the seas with a ship full of heathens, chasing redemption in all the wrong places.

Lark doesn't remember the palace, the blood, or the boy with ocean in his eyes. She only knows the orphanage, the streets, and the haunting power in her voice that no one can explain.

When fate throws them back together, Cass offers her a cruel bargain: pretend to be the lost princess, or walk the plank. But the more time they spend together, the harder it is to tell who's deceiving whom-and what's more dangerous: the truth behind her past or the feelings they can't outrun.