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They say women bring bad luck at sea.
For centuries, sailors have thrown girls overboard, believing superstition would save their ships. But the sea does not kill them. It transforms them.
Now, they are the Daughters of the Drowned: girls who became mermaids, bound to the tides, their songs a haunting reminder of the cruelty of men and the injustice of the world.
One girl, sent to sea with her feet tied, thought she would die. She survived. She remembers her human life, her love, and the man she cannot forget-her fiancé, searching the seas for her even as the world has moved on.
She is torn between revenge and longing, between the fierce power of her new life and the fragile memory of the one she loved. Her song reaches the sailors who wronged her-and perhaps, one day, the man who still waits for her.
Haunting, dark, and beautifully tragic, Daughters of the Drowned is a tale of love, vengeance, and the myths we carry in the waves.