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What the Sea Keeps

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What the Sea Keeps

A Tide-Bound NovellaBy Merrow Kincaid

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What the Sea Keeps

Length3h 36m

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Three years ago, the sea took Marcus. It did not give him back. Sable Reed knows what she saw. She has kept it to herself for three years because saying the words out loud would make her the woman who lost her fiancé to a sea monster — and the only thing worse than not being believed is being believed. So she dives the same kelp forest where he died, every morning, alone. She tells the harbor it's research. She tells herself it's evidence. She is lying to both. What she does not know: she has not been alone in the water for twelve months. Veth is a creature the deep court banished and could not kill. Sapient. Older than her by centuries. Eight tentacles, a humanoid torso, bioluminescent points along his mantle that pulse in a pattern he cannot stop the moment her heartbeat enters the kelp. He has watched her dive every morning of his exile. He has lifted her weight belt by an ounce to see if she would notice. She did not.

Monster Fiction

Nature & Wilderness

Mythological World

Audiobook details

GenreRomance

Length3 hrs 36 mins

Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices

FormateBook with Audio

Publish dateApr 29, 2026

LanguageEnglish

Table of contents

1Chapter 1: The Kelp Closes

8Chapter 8: The Ash Beds

2Chapter 2: The Shape of Watching

9Chapter 9: Sulfur

3Chapter 3: Slack Tide

10Chapter 10: The Harbor

4Chapter 4: The Cave at Low Tide

11Chapter 11: What He Hid

5Chapter 5: First Contact

12Chapter 12: The Descent

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6Chapter 6: The Drop-Off

13Chapter 13: The Court

7Chapter 7: The Argument

14Chapter 14: The Saltbox Porch

Series

Tide-Bound

Tide-BoundBook 1

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