Lunatide

She thought she was starting her life.Instead, something ancient has already claimed her.Alaura Hayes built everything she has from nothing — no family, no safety net, no one to call. After years of discipline and sacrifice, she's finally standing at the edge of the future she fought for.Then reality begins to fracture. The water moves when she hasn't touched it. A melody finds her in places water shouldn't reach. And the world she has always known reveals itself as a surface — beneath it, something vast and very old has been watching her for a long time.A world of power and contract, where certain people were never meant to have standing. Where the ocean keeps what the land tries to erase. And where Alaura's existence is not an accident — it is a threat to everything that has been built to contain her.The absence she grew up with was not abandonment.It was protection.And what she was hidden from is coming regardless.