Where the Sea Remembers Us. Novels, #1

Some promises are too heavy for the shore to hold. When Elara Sen returns to the weathered cliffs of Asterbay to settle her late father's estate, she expects to find closure-not ghosts. Ten years ago, Elara left her home, her family, and the boy she loved without a word, taking with her nothing but a shattered memory of the night the sea tried to claim her. Now, the past is rising with the tide. As Elara sifts through her father's hidden journals, she discovers a terrifying truth: her survival a decade ago was no miracle.
It was a bargain. The town of Asterbay is steeped in secrets, but none cut as deep as Kael Rowan's. The boy who saved her has grown into a man haunted by the decade he spent watching the waves, holding onto a promise they both forgot. But as Elara's memories begin to fracture and return, a new darkness emerges from the deep. She wasn't just saved from the water; she was marked by it. Now, an ancient force is waking beneath the waves, and it has come to balance the scales.
Trapped between the land that anchors her to Kael and a sea that demands its due, Elara must face a devastating choice. If she stays with the boy she loves, she risks breaking the world. If she surrenders to the deep, she loses herself forever. In a race against an unfolding storm, Elara and Kael must uncover the truth of a bond forged in water and blood. But some debts are older than life itself, and the sea is finally calling its last memory home.
A love that becomes a tide-eternal, returning, and unbroken.