Clara was never meant to be a mother, a goddess, or the glue that holds her weird but somewhat functional found family together—but here she is, doing all three with the grace of a tipsy flamingo in a minefield. With the Sea Kingdom demanding her son, Luc, return to the Sea and begin training as their heir, war brews on all sides of Clara's crumbling sanctuary. Dave, injured but alive, finally awakens, claiming he wants peace. But when secrets unravel and old magic awakens, Clara discovers that Dave’s loyalty might not lie where she thought. Again. As Clara juggles magical politics, a town that wants her gone, and Neve’s terrifying new powers, her reluctant alliance with the stoic and dangerously powerful stranger living on her land deepens into something she doesn’t have time to name. Because something ancient is stirring beneath the waves. Something monstrous enough to shake the heavens. A threat larger than anything Clara has ever faced has awakened. And it wants its throne back.