Riding the Long Tide

The 101 has been underwater for nine years. The Cormorants run what's left of it — salt roads, barge gates, and a rule they've kept longer than the tide: we don't sell women. When a rival charter starts sinking barges to expose a sunken freighter, Junie Alcazar dives the wreck herself. The cargo is alive. Tethered. Bioluminescent. And according to the paper on the rival president's wall, still their grandfather's property. She cuts him loose with a dive knife. He knows every flooded road on the coast. And on land he can't hold his shape without her between him and the heat of the engine. They want him back. They want her sister to get him. And Junie has never been good at being told what to trade. A monster bait sci-fi alien MC romance of tide lines, toll gates, and one navigator who rides pillion.