In the death-worshipping, sea-loathing kingdom of Mortia, a mermaid who sheds her tail, grows legs, and walks upon land is sentenced to immediate death. Unfortunately, Zephyra is on the run, and the last place anyone would expect the mermaid to be is in a gods-forsaken kingdom like Mortia. She spends her days thieving and her nights sneaking into lavish balls, happy with the little bit of freedom she''s carved out for herself. Until she''s discovered as the kingdom''s greatest enemy during a midnight masquerade, captured, and brought straight to the gallows. Warlock Arion Stone has spent years honing his powers under the tutelage of the warlock academy. Desperately, he seeks the heard of the God of Death, buried in ana undersea prison. Arion negotiates Zephyra''s release, and together they must retrieve the God of Death''s heart.

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Jordan Stephanie Gray is the New York Times bestselling author of the young adult paranormal romantasy, Bitten, and the adult mermaid romantasy, The Wicked Sea.

When she isn't lounging by the pool and typing away at her computer, she is likely cuddling her pugs in sunny Florida.

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Mermaid Zephyra of the Syl dreams of freedom. On the run from a dangerous captor, she's swapped her tail for legs and hidden herself on land in the merrow-loathing kingdom of Mortia. But her freedom is short-lived when she's caught and sentenced to death by the brutal warlock, Arion Stone.

Arion is as beautiful as he is cold and deadly, only interested in punishing the merrow he views as evil. He has grown as strong as any warlock might, but at great personal cost . . . which can only be remedied by the heart of the God of Death, lost to a fabled kingdom beneath the ocean's treacherous depths.

So Arion offers Zephyra a deal she can't refuse: help him find the heart, and he'll spare her life. With no other options, Zephyra agrees, entangling their souls and forbidden desires in a magical bargain until death do they part. But Zephyra's past is catching up to her, and the enemy she fled seeks vengeance. If Zephyra and Arion can't learn to fight together - and trust each other - there are worse things awaiting them than just death . . .