Seaborn and the Seven Seas

A young woman caged in rock and salt will rise as something the world has forgotten. Enslaved in the pearl-diving caverns of Jeju, a nameless young woman survives on nothing but prying oysters and the sisterhood of the women beside her. Every day is the same-shells cracked open, pearls stolen for masters who own their labor and their silence. When a ship arrives and a pirate captain with storm-blue eyes saves her, everything she believes about her small, broken life begins to unravel. He carries secrets bound in blood and a bone-deep loyalty to a crown. Something ancient is stirring beneath seven kingdoms bound by seven seas-old gods, older debts, and a war that never truly ended. A woman with no name may be the only thing standing between salvation and ruin. Freedom was only the beginning. Now she must become what she was always meant to be. A romantasy of stolen names, ocean-deep secrets, and a love written into the bones of the world. Tropes Morally gray Slow burn Found family Korean mermaid-mythology-inspired Multiple kingdoms Mermaids & Pirates Touch her and die Sisterhood Political betrayal Ancient prophecy