A Dark and Drowning Tide

Lorelei Kaskel, a folklorist, joins an expedition of six quarrelsome nobles sent by the king to find a fabled spring rumored to grant untold power. Days in, the expedition's leader — Lorelei's beloved mentor — is found murdered aboard their ship, and every remaining companion is a suspect. Forced to take command and to work alongside her sharp-tongued academic rival, Sylvia von Wolff, Lorelei must solve the killing as the wilderness turns against them — forests that rearrange by night, rivers with dragons beneath — and as her loathing for Sylvia curdles into something far more dangerous. A sapphic fantasy murder mystery.