Alinia is the one who keeps the silence between storms. Behind her pearlescent skin and abyssal eyes lies the nature of the depths: a siren whose song can shatter minds, yet whose heart yearns for silence. Her pearl amulet is the key to a painful transformation, the price for stepping onto land. Alinia saved a young sailor from death, and that choice condemned her to solitude and pursuit. She lives in two worlds but belongs to neither, her past holding the secret of her exile from the pod. Now, she studies the world of humans with caution, knowing that only her bond with that very same rescued sailor could become her greatest hope — and her most formidable threat.