Of Salt and Sunless Water

Lyra Calvert arrives at Saltreach fortress carrying her drowned father's name like armor, determined to bond a leviathan and prove she's more than the empire's idea of a proper woman. But when an ancient sea-wyrm chooses her with terrifying force and her infuriating flight-partner Cassius Knight draws her into the breathless intimacy of shared breath-magic, Lyra discovers that the empire she serves has been built on monstrous lies—and that the father she mourned may not be dead at all. To save everything she loves, she'll have to shatter everything she was taught to believe.