The Lost Daughter of Seablood

Marit Warren has spent her whole life feeling like a guest in her own story. Deaf in a hearing family, she's always felt a half-step out of place, as if she was meant to belong somewhere else entirely.

Then a storm off Pharos Island drags up a glowing key that unlocks a name she's never heard and a truth she's spent thirteen years searching for without knowing it: she is Runa, daughter of an undine, stolen away and lost to a family that never stopped watching the water for her.

When a Deaf exchange program offers her the chance to study in Castellychwiold, Marit jumps at it. The town feels wrong from the moment she arrives--mist that moves against the wind, shadows that don't sit where shadows should. She tells herself it's culture shock.

It isn't.

Beneath the mist lies a hidden realm where magic hums under the waves and old secrets refuse to stay buried. Marit's blood ties her to a family curse that ends in an impossible Choice--and to a second prophecy shared with three other Deaf girls, one that could save the realm or doom it completely.

As the Veil between worlds thins and her birthday closes in, an old god takes a personal interest in her power, the Watcher assigned to guard her becomes someone she can't imagine losing, and a family across the ocean who loves her imperfectly is running out of days to say goodbye.

Because if Marit chooses the sea, she won't simply leave her family behind.

She'll have never existed to them at all.

The Lost Daughter of Seablood is the first book in a four-part series following four Deaf and hard-of-hearing heroines bound by prophecy, found family, and a fight against fates--perfect for readers who love portal fantasy, fierce heroines, and found-family stakes with Deaf representation at their center.