The Sea Withdrew

The Fountain of Youth was never a place. It was a girl. Now she is beginning to remember what she was before it became her prison.

Scarlet Singer ran from the Circle with Zig, trusting no one as they fled across the world. She never realized the monster had already come with her.

The boy beside her is not Zig.

Dagon is wearing his body.

The ancient being who has hunted Scarlet across lifetimes has been hiding behind the face of the man she loves, while Zig remains trapped inside, conscious and running out of time.

Scarlet has only one way to save him: make a deal with the demon.

Dagon agrees to return Zig alive if Scarlet stays with him. But Scarlet demands terms of her own. He can never possess her again, and from that moment forward, he cannot lie to her.

Their bargain is sealed in blood.

And honesty proves far more dangerous than deception.

Dagon was not always a demon. Once, he was a god of the sea.

As Scarlet enters his world, a journal written across her previous lives begins dismantling everything the Circle taught her. The Fountains before her were hidden, controlled, imprisoned, and bled for the power in their veins. Ancient gods became monsters when history changed hands. And Dagon appears throughout Scarlet's reincarnations as enemy, protector, obsession, and something far more difficult to name.

The monster she was taught to fear remembers loving her.

Her past selves remember him too.

With the Circle closing in, Zig dying, and something ancient stirring beneath the sea, Scarlet must decide whether Dagon is drawing her into darkness or finally showing her who has been standing in the light.

The Sea Withdrew is the second book in the award-winning Fountain of Youth trilogy, a dark supernatural romantasy filled with reincarnation, ancient gods, morally gray devotion, blood oaths, forced proximity, enemies-to-lovers tension, betrayal, sea magic, and a love story thousands of years in the making.

This trilogy must be read in order.