Tideborn

A tsunami has just torn through Tiankawi, the semi-submerged city where humans live alongside the fathomfolk: sirens, seawitches, kelpies and kappa. The two groups have shared the flooded streets in uneasy tension since a great flood remade the world, and the damage strains that arrangement further.

Mira, a half-siren activist, works to keep the broken city from splitting apart. She also has to trace a conspiracy that threatens the little peace left, and she cannot be sure who in the city can be trusted.

Far from the wreckage, the dragon princess Nami sails a dangerous stretch of ocean. Her aim is to talk a mythical Titan out of destroying Tiankawi as punishment for its past crimes. The seawitch Cordelia, meanwhile, moves through the unrest with an agenda of her own.

This is the second and final book of the Drowned World duology, following Fathomfolk. It draws on East and Southeast Asian mythology and folklore, and it mixes political intrigue with large mythic set pieces. Prejudice, diaspora and the work of rebuilding after disaster run through it, and the question that drives it is whether Tiankawi survives its own history.