They built a sanctuary at the edge of the world. The empire just signed the warrant to take it.

Kaia Thorne and Cassian Stormwright are married, the Tidebound marks at their wrists gold and violet, the Warden base they raised out of exile holding the Tideline against everything the realm sends. It works. The refugee intake doesn't slow.

Then the High Solar Court draws a writ that doesn't name the Wardens. It names the three Twilight Caller children Kaia teaches in a sail-loft. Cassian decides the writ comes off the children if he walks into the Court alone. He sails on the morning tide.

Kaia takes half a sea to bring him home?because the buried verse two factions have hidden for six hundred years says alone destroys you, and a marriage, defended together, is a wall an empire has never learned how to take.

A marriage tested. A home defended. A truth that should never have been buried.