Book 2

Three months have passed since Mingxia passed the Imperial Council’s test and claimed four Major Arcana and a Minor Arcana suit. However, the success that should have secured Wuzhen’s future blossoms into something far more dangerous—Liwei’s battle against a demon lord has left him poisoned.

Desperate to save her mate, she travels beyond the  ainlands and into the realm’s aquatic kingdoms, where debts are paid in blood and ancient powers refuse to relinquish control. But with every step closer to an antidote, she becomes entangled in an age-old conflict between merfolk and avian shapeshifters that threatens to drag her beneath the depths and submerge the kingdom she’s fighting to rebuild.