She crashed onto a planet ruled by the ocean.
The sea chose her mate.
When survey pilot Mara Vale crashes on the ocean world Thalora, survival is the only thing on her mind.
Endless water.
Predators beneath the waves.
And an alien civilization that moves through the sea like born hunters.
The Nerei are not human.
They are faster.
Stronger.
And the storm-hunter who finds her first watches Mara like she already belongs to him.
Seyr is the most feared hunter of the reef clans.
He has fought leviathans in the deep trenches and survived storms that tear ships apart.
But the moment he touches the human woman, something ancient awakens.
A Tidemark.
A bond the ocean itself chooses.
Now Mara carries a glowing mark beneath her skin that ties her to the powerful alien warrior who refuses to let her go.
To the Nerei, the meaning is clear.
She is his.
But the sea has noticed the bond.
Ancient leviathans rise from the trenches.
And far above the planet, the corporation that sent Mara here has begun searching for the power buried beneath Thalora’s oceans.
The storm hunter will protect what belongs to him.
Even if it means defying his people.
Even if it means war.
And even if the human woman bound to him refuses to surrender to the pull between them.
Because on Thalora…
The ocean always claims what it chooses.
