Somerville, MA: Candlewick Press, (2023) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's second young adult fantasy novel, in which "a diverse resistance force fights to topple an empire in a story about freedom, identity, and decolonization.. . But trust and truth are hard to come by in this complex world of mermaids, spies, warriors, and aristocrats. Who will Genevieve - lavishly dressed but washed up, half-dead, on the Wariuta island shore - turn out to be? Is warrior Koas kindness toward her admirable, or is his sister Kaias sharp suspicion wiser?. . Meanwhile, the Sea is losing more and more of herself as her daughters continue to be brutally hunted, and the Empire continues to expand through profits made from their blood. The threads of time, a web of schemes, shifting loyalties, and blossoming identities converge as unlikely young allies work to forge a new and better world." SIGNED on the title page. Map. 311 pp. ISBN: 978-1536218053.