Sixteen-year-old Livi, from the coastal country of Merritaine, must reach the Nocturne Isles. For legends say Nocturne holds healing springs—waters that could cure her mamá’s cancer. Passage to Nocturne is scarce, though, for Nocturne keeps more legends than that of healing waters.
Sirens—powerful, human-like, aquarian creatures—are said to haunt the waters of the Mar de Basilisk raging around Nocturne. Not to mention, Merritaine and Nocturne are engaged in an unjust war, incited by Merritaine’s Admiral Eris Machai.
Livi’s closest friends, Célian and Jules, have been drafted as reconnaissance scouts—boys who work with dolphins to find and disarm sea mines left in the wake of the Admiral’s war. Though the ocean is littered with warships and arsenal, the seafarers fear Siren reports more than the threat of the war reigniting. For Sirens, legends say, can rend steel and flesh. And they can manipulate human thought.
Livi, though, dismisses Sirens as mythical. Monsters don’t take the form of sea legends. Monsters take the shape of Admiral Machai, of volatile sea mines, of cancer. Or so she believes until, with the help of her friends, she discovers the motivation of the Admiral’s war.
Livi may be the only person able to stop him. But first she must learn to master her birthright: powers of influence, of strength, and of destruction.
The Strider and the Regulus
A starry-eyed boy. A cryptic map.
A mythical treasure.
What perils await in the
chasing of dreams?
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I'm an award-winning novelist, poet, and short story writer. I grew up in Amarillo, Texas, chasing storms, riding stallions, sojourning through painted canyons, disappearing into floating mesas under starry skies.
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