when the legendary toruk makto arrives at your reef seeking sanctuary, the last thing you expect is for his family to turn your quiet life upside down. forest people don’t belong in the sea—and judging by the way they’re drowning in lessons, awkward customs, and everyone’s judgmental stares, the feeling is mutual. between teaching the sullys how to survive the reef, keeping lo’ak out of trouble, enduring aonung’s increasingly obvious attempts to impress you, and trying very hard not to notice the quiet way neteyam always seems to find his way to your side, life becomes far more complicated than the tides ever were.