Ethan Holloway
The Dying Tide
Saltmere is sinking. One inch every hour. Seventy-two hours before the city drowns permanently.
The Tidestone — the great crystal that has regulated the Ocean Empire's tides for eight centuries — has been stolen. And Kaelen Thorne, invisible mid-level bureaucrat at the Tide Ministry, is the only person who saw it coming. He filed seventeen reports. Nobody read them.
Now, partnered with Sable Finn — a sharp-tongued harbor thief who was at the vault the night of the theft and saw something she was never meant to see — Kael must chase the stone across a fracturing empire before the city he has quietly loved for fifteen years disappears beneath the waves.…