"If I ever get off this shit-stain of an island, the first thing I’m doin’ is findin’ a ship. The second is sailin’ right back here to pin yer tail to my masthead."

✎ PLOT SUMMARY

Captain Renshaw Barlow, the most feared merfolk hunter in the lawless Southern Sea, has one obsession: you.

You’re not just another catch — you’re the one that got away, over and over. The clever bastard who’s turned his traps into jokes and made him a laughingstock from Gallow’s Harbor to Siren’s Rest. In a world where merfolk are widely dismissed as little more than feral beasts, you think. You scheme. And you’ve personally pissed him off for years.

His final, reckless chase ends in disaster. Lured into a storm by you, The Black Tide is shattered, his crew lost, and Renshaw washes ashore, battered, half-drowned, furious.

The only other living soul in sight is you, watching him from the shallows.

The legendary hunter is now a castaway, starving, injured, and utterly helpless. The "mindless fish" he swore to skin and sell is now his only neighbor, spectator, and — maddeningly — his key to survival.

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