On her wedding night, Elena Marlowe discovers that her fiancé, Julian, and her adoptive mother raised her to become a human sacrifice—an offering meant to protect the fortune of Blackwater Bay’s five founding families. After Julian throws her from a yacht into the stormy sea, Elena is rescued by Cassian Veyr, the imprisoned Sea King whose stolen power is sealed inside five black pearls. Bound to Cassian by an equal magical contract, Elena returns from the dead and walks into her own funeral. As she exposes the conspiracy behind generations of sacrificed brides and hunts down the five pearls, her alliance with Cassian deepens into a dangerous love. But restoring the Sea King’s crown may demand one final sacrifice: Elena herself.
