The Drowned Atlas

Fifty years after the sea took the cities, Wren sails out of Havenswell alone. One boat. One bearing. One letter she has carried for seven years, written to the woman she loved and let go.

But the drowned world keeps its secrets from a lone sail. News decays. Trails go cold. And when the search leads somewhere, it leads to the Lagan: a community of three hundred souls behind a failing tidal wall, their harvest poisoned, their last engineer dead, their boats quietly packing to scatter.

The woman Wren is looking for was here. Two years ago. Mending what could not be mended, and asking, in every harbour, after a scout with a gull feather in her hat.

Now the trail is warm, the sailing window is closing, and Wren must choose: chase the woman she lost, or stay for the strangers who hold the only way back to her.