The Keeper's Mercy

When the river dreams, it dreams of her. Tessa Moore was born beneath the shadow of the valley's river - a current said to remember every soul it ever drowned. When the floods return after years of silence, they bring with them something impossible: the voice of the water itself, whispering her name. But the river is not just alive - it is hungry. Bound to its restless tide is Lucen, the ferryman cursed to guide the drowned between life and oblivion.
When he rises from the flood to warn her away, their fates entwine: the mortal Keeper who can command the current, and the immortal bound to obey it. Together they must unearth the truth of the old flood - the one that drowned a god, broke a vow, and cursed a love to never find shore. As the sea begins to wake, and bells ring beneath the water once more, Tessa faces an impossible choice: let the world drown again, or become the mercy that saves it.
In a world where rivers remember, mercy has teeth - and love is the only current strong enough to survive the tide.