The Sea Withdrew

Scarlet Singer survived the truth, but survival has a price.

The hidden world of magic is no longer a nightmare she can deny. Witches are lying. Monsters are real. And the demon who once hunted her is now the only one who may be able to save the boy she loves.

To keep Zig alive, Scarlet agrees to an impossible bargain with Dagon, the ancient sea-born being tied to her across lifetimes. But staying near him means stepping deeper into a world of buried gods, stolen histories, and old magic twisted into something monstrous. It also means facing the one truth Scarlet has tried hardest to outrun: Dagon is not the story she was told.

As Scarlet and Dagon are forced into uneasy alliance, the line between enemy and protector begins to blur. A journal from one of Scarlet’s former lives opens the door to memories that were never truly lost, and with every page, her connection to Dagon grows more intimate, more dangerous, and harder to deny.

Because the past between them is not dead. It is waiting.

And the deeper Scarlet falls into Dagon’s world, the more she begins to see the tragedy beneath the monster, the god beneath the demon, and the love that history tried to turn into something cruel. Dagon is not simply a demon. He is a ruin made by grief, devotion, and centuries of rage. And Scarlet may be the only thing he has ever wanted that he could never keep.

But the Circle is still watching. Old powers are rising from the sea. And if Scarlet cannot uncover the truth of who Dagon was, and who she was to him, she may lose far more than her heart.

The Sea Withdrew is the second book in the award-winning Fountain of Youth trilogy, a dark adult romantasy filled with morally gray devotion, ancient gods, reincarnation, cursed love, blood magic, hidden worlds, and a slow-burn enemies-to-lovers romance that spans lifetimes. This series must be read in order.