The Dying Tide
Saltmere is sinking. One inch every hour. Seventy-two hours before the city drowns permanently.
The Tidestone - the great crystal that has regulated the Ocean Empire's tides for eight centuries - has been stolen. And Kaelen Thorne, invisible mid-level bureaucrat at the Tide Ministry, is the only person who saw it coming. He filed seventeen reports. Nobody read them.
Now, partnered with Sable Finn - a sharp-tongued harbor thief who was at the vault the night of the theft and saw something she was never meant to see - Kael must chase the stone across a fracturing empire before the city he has quietly loved for fifteen years disappears beneath the waves.
The problem: the Tidestone is not just a heartbeat. It is a weapon. The most powerful tidal weapon ever built. And the man who stole it is not a criminal. He is the most respected official in the empire - a man with a plan, a coalition, and a coldly reasonable argument for why the world needs to be remade.
He is also Kael's boss.
The Dying Tide is a noir-drenched fantasy thriller about institutional corruption, invisible heroes, and the terrifying reasonableness of intelligent villains. For fans of Tana French, John le Carr , and Scott Lynch.
The tide is coming in. Kael Thorne has 72 hours. He has never mattered before.
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