"Sean Calder was supposed to be protected by the powerful Vale family. Instead, at his own engagement celebration, the Tide Egg carrying his child vanishes—and every piece of evidence is twisted to blame him. Cast out, hunted, and called an unstable carrier, Sean refuses to surrender the child still calling to him through the sea.
As he follows the egg’s heartbeat, Sean uncovers a deeper betrayal: Maren Vale stole his child to control the Deep Throne, and Sean is not the powerless outsider she claimed he was. He is the last surviving bloodline of Crown Reef, the very royal line Atlantic House tried to erase.
With Ethan torn between love, guilt, and family secrets, Sean must expose Maren’s crimes, reclaim his child, and face the truth about the throne everyone wants to own.
They called him a carrier. The sea knows him as a king."
