Changing Tides

He was supposed to kill her family.
She was supposed to die.
Instead, he let her live—and it cost him everything.

Years ago, Cass, the son of the Sea King, was sent to poison the royal family. He couldn’t do it. The girl who slipped into his cell each night, singing him stories in the dark, made sure of that.

Now disgraced and exiled, Cass roams the seas with a pirate crew of outcasts, chasing redemption he doesn’t deserve.

Lark remembers nothing of the palace. Not the blood. Not the boy with ocean in his eyes. She only knows the orphanage, the streets, and the dangerous power hidden in her voice.

When fate throws them back together, Cass offers her a ruthless bargain: pretend to be the lost princess—or walk the plank.

But as secrets surface and old wounds reopen, one question becomes impossible to ignore:
Is the truth of her past more dangerous than the feelings neither of them can outrun?

A slow-burn pirate romantasy featuring hidden royalty, forced proximity, found family, and a love born of betrayal.