Tobias Mar has never known a home that wasn’t the deck of a ship. Raised aboard the pirate vessel Song of the Siren under the watchful eye of Captain Sigurmar Sjolfur, he knows every plank and passageway by heart, and his oldest friend, the ship’s cat Salt, is never more than a step behind him.

When the Empire’s warships close in on the Siren in a brutal, relentless chase, Tobias discovers something no one, least of all himself, saw coming: a power tied to the sea itself is stirring inside him. What follows is a breathless voyage into worlds as strange as they are dangerous, where the boy who thought he knew exactly who he was has to learn what he might become.

Fast paced and full of surprises, with a vivid cast and illustrations that stand as artworks in their own right, this is a thrilling adventure for middle grade readers, and the first in a series with real potential.