The Sea Withdrew
Scarlet ran from the people who claimed they could protect her. She never realized the monster had already come for a ride.
For three months, Scarlet Singer and Zig have been running from the Circle, moving from country to country and trusting almost no one.
Then Scarlet realizes the boy beside her isn't Zig.
Dagon is wearing his body.
The ancient being who has hunted Scarlet across lifetimes has been hiding behind the face of the man she loves, and Zig is still trapped somewhere inside, conscious and running out of time.
Scarlet has only one way to save him.
Make a deal with the demon.
Dagon agrees to return Zig alive if Scarlet stays with him. But Scarlet has conditions of her own: he can never possess her again, and from this moment forward, he cannot lie to her.
Their bargain is sealed in blood.
And honesty turns out to be far more dangerous than deception.
Because Dagon was not always a demon.
Once, he was a god of the sea.
As Scarlet travels deeper into his world, a journal written across her previous lives begins dismantling everything the Circle taught her. Fountains before her were hidden, controlled, imprisoned, and bled for the power in their veins. Ancient gods became monsters when history changed hands. And woven through Scarlet's reincarnations is Dagon, appearing again and again as enemy, protector, obsession, and something far more difficult to name.
The monster Scarlet was taught to fear remembers loving her.
Her past selves remember him too.
Now Scarlet must decide which truths belong to history, which were created by those in power, and whether the creature responsible for so much of her suffering could also be the only person willing to show her what she really is.
Because the Circle is still searching for her.
Zig is dying.
Something ancient is stirring beneath the sea.
And the closer Scarlet comes to remembering the woman she was before the Fountain, the harder it becomes to tell whether she is being pulled into the darkness...
...or finally seeing who has been standing in the light.
The Sea Withdrew is Book Two of the Fountain of Youth trilogy, a dark supernatural romantasy filled with reincarnation, ancient gods, morally gray devotion, blood oaths, hidden mythology, forced proximity, enemies-to-lovers tension, betrayal, sea magic, and a love story thousands of years in the making.
The Fountain of Youth was never a place.
Now Scarlet is beginning to remember what she was before it became her prison.
This trilogy must be read in order.
Praise for The Sea Withdrew
"A spellbinding continuation-dark, mysterious, and impossible to put down."
-Jackson Anhalt, bestselling author of From The 911 Files
"Magic, danger, and impossible choices. Levi delivers an unforgettable sequel."
-P. Gorman, host of Gorman On Gore
"Like Part One, the writing is flawless and the style is seductive. Not overly-complicated with adornment but rather plausibly compelling in structure and tone."
-Stewart Carry, Page Turner Awards Judge
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