Valrye was born to be a botanist. Her green thumb can turn the deadest of weeds into a

plentiful harvest, but she lives a sheltered life never having been past the rocky cliffs of her

island home. In a world drowned by the Great Rising, Valrye survives on one of the few

remaining habitable land masses, growing crops and medicines with nothing to show for it

except a dead mother and an estranged brother.

But when a book-smuggling pirate, a group of rebellious women, and a whole lot of

family secrets lead Valrye to question everything, it soon becomes a race against the clock to

find answers and maybe even an escape. But not everyone wants to see her succeed, and even if

she does, what will she find beyond the stormy beaches of the only place she's ever known?