Beyond the God Sea

<p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>No man may touch Zaria. Not even her own father.</strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Envy of the other girls Zaria was </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>born</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> for the sea. Nobody questions her fate as the chosen braenese to marry Keroe God of the Sea -- least of all her.</span></p><p><br></p><p>And even if she did she has no choice.</p><p><br></p><p>When Zaria's wedding day finally arrives she'll become the only islander of her generation permitted to cross into the God Sea. There's nothing more she could possibly want.</p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Until a curious boy washes up on her palm-fringed paradise and Zaria defies sacred law to hide the unconscious stranger.</strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>There are only two possibilities with his strange (and strangely handsome) face: he's either a village anomaly or the Sea God himself in disguise. The alluring boy-creature couldn't have come from anywhere else because there </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>is</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> no other land in all the ocean.</span></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But when the scoundrel awakens he has the gall to ambush Zaria.</strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>As three pageants leading up to her wedding turn unexpectedly deadly and the enigma of its true purpose looms Zaria is torn between her long-desired fate as Sea Queen and the </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>infuriating</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> boy who tells her that everything her people know is a lie.</span></p><p><br></p><p>********</p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Please be advised: In this dystopian series the protagonist grows in a manner similar to characters such as Sansa Stark. She begins as sheltered and does not become a strategist until Book II when the story darkens and matures. There is no spice/adult content until Book III.</strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Book I is Mid-Range YA.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Book II is Dark/Mature YA better suited to older teen readers.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Book III is New Adult and contains mature content.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>**Winner of Independent Book Review's The Best Books We Read This Year (2021)**</span></p>