Valrye was born to be a botanist. Her green thumb can turn the deadest of weeds into a
plentiful harvest, but she lives a sheltered life never having been past the rocky cliffs of her
island home. In a world drowned by the Great Rising, Valrye survives on one of the few
remaining habitable land masses, growing crops and medicines with nothing to show for it
except a dead mother and an estranged brother.

But when a book-smuggling pirate, a group of rebellious women and a whole lot of
family secrets lead Valrye to question everything, it soon becomes a race against the clock to
find answers and maybe even an escape. But not everyone wants to see her succeed, and even if
she does, what will she find beyond the stormy beaches of the only place she's ever known?