The Cormorant Girl

On the shard-cliffs of Vathra, where the forests fall away into a black and endless sea, the people pray to gods that have been dead for a thousand years. Only the cormorants still remember the sound of their voices. Ilyra has spent her life turning that memory into a weapon. Orphan, smuggler, and unwilling priestess of the Tidelorn cult, she hides a forbidden gift: the power to slip her bones into feather and sinew, to become a cormorant and ride the storm winds over the watchtowers of warring city-states. As a silent courier and spy, she trades secrets between rival temples and courts, threading her way through a web of lies that holds the fragile peace together. When a blood-red moon rises over the mountains and the sea begins to recede, revealing the ruins of a drowned temple older than history, Ilyra is dragged into a conspiracy that reaches back to the first gods.