Leila ran from her crown and crashed into a pirate ship. There, she found Kieran—the merman king, captured, bleeding, drowning in chains. She saved him. The blood bond activated. Fated mates. But a king belongs to the sea, and a princess belongs to the land. Kieran endured the agony of a forbidden tail-splitting spell—breaking his own body to walk beside her. They fought pirates. Outran assassins. Defied every law of land and sea. Together. Because some loves aren't meant to be easy. They're meant to be impossible. And impossible is exactly what they chose.