Another mindwalker has been burned at the stake in Bluewater, and Ayana won't stand for it any longer. She's ready to risk everything to help a boy called Nikolas escape the city. Across the border to the north, no one will care that he knows things he shouldn't.
But Ayana's own secrets may ruin the plan she has set in motion. When she's caught at the water's edge with one of the merfolk, her plan to get Nikolas to safety comes crashing down around her. Ayana can't help anyone if she's the next in line to burn.
Ayana has been told her whole life not to stare too long into the water, for fear that something might stare back from out of the deep. Now the ocean may be the only hope she and Nikolas have left.
