The world of the Great Middle Sea is drowning. A perpetual, supernatural storm known as the Crest of Chaos has severed the trade routes, swallowed the islands, and plunged the Phoenician-inspired empires into a dark age of isolation. Thalassa, a navigator born with “sea-sight”—the ability to feel the currents in her very bones—lives in exile on a barren rock, blamed for the naval disaster that took her father’s life.
When the High Admiral’s royal fleet is trapped in the eye of the gale, they come to her with a desperate plea. Legends speak of the Amber Lighthouse, an ancient structure built by the First Voyagers that can pierce any mist and calm any wave. But the lighthouse has been dark for three centuries, and its location is a secret guarded by ghosts and sea-monsters. To save her people, Thalassa must lead a crew of her former enemies into the heart of the storm, discovering that the light they seek requires a fuel more precious than oil: the truth of their own bloodline.
