Overview

When the ocean takes everything from her, it gives her something else back—its most dangerous secret.
Alora Kyle has spent her life trapped in a marriage she never chose, mothering children she barely had time to love before survival swallowed her whole. When a violent storm capsizes her family's boat, she wakes alone on the shore of Catalina Isle—an isolated, myth-haunted place whispered to belong to the sea.
Her husband and children are dead. Her past is gone. Her grief is a hollow ache that threatens to swallow her whole.
Then she meets Nara Lowe.
Mysterious. Beautiful. Ancient.
A lighthouse keeper with secrets carved into her skin and saltwater in her veins.
As Alora recovers in Nara's secluded cottage, the quiet island reveals its strangeness: scales in the bathtub, glowing creatures in the tide pools, claw marks on wrecked boats. And when Alora discovers the truth—Nara is not human at all—her world cracks open.
Together, they unravel the myths of Catalina Isle, where forgotten goddesses, drowned women, and sea-born creatures watch from the deep. As Alora learns to navigate the tides and her own shattered heart, she must confront a terrifying question:
Was her family's death an accident… or did something beneath the waves pull them under?
And even more dangerous—
Why did the ocean choose to spare her**?**
A haunting, lyrical tale of grief, rebirth, and forbidden connection, Sorrow Beneath the Tide is a dark sapphic fantasy where the sea gives life, takes it, and demands everything in return.