Valrye was born to be a botanist. Her green thumb can turn the deadest of weeds into aplentiful harvest, but she lives a sheltered life never having been past the rocky cliffs of herisland home. In a world drowned by the Great Rising, Valrye survives on one of the fewremaining habitable land masses, growing crops and medicines with nothing to show for itexcept a dead mother and an estranged brother.But when a book-smuggling pirate, a group of rebellious women, and a whole lot offamily secrets lead Valrye to question everything, it soon becomes a race against the clock tofind answers and maybe even an escape. But not everyone wants to see her succeed, and even ifshe does, what will she find beyond the stormy beaches of the only place she's ever known?