The Groom of Ruin

Sera Alvez left Marrowdeep at seventeen, and she has not thought about the lake in years. She is lying. When the flood comes and the old town starts rising through the water, she drives back with a wedding dress in her trunk and one name in her mouth she swore never to say again. Corvin has waited ten years beneath the surface, holding a seal together with his hands. The seal needs a bride. The bride needs to leave. Neither of them is willing to say the obvious thing out loud, which is that they have already done this once and failed. They have four days. They have a drowned priest, a flooded church, and a marriage that is also a lock. And Sera has a city life, a good man, and a return ticket she is running out of reasons to use. A monster bait reunion romance about the water, the debt, and the person you never stopped being married to in your head.