C. Maren Lawe emblem: a key crowned by a star over the sea

C. Maren Lawe

Sea-Gothic Romantasy

Dark tides. Old debts. Women who refuse to be the price.

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The Stories

Drowned kingdoms, and the bargains that keep them breathing. Slow-burning danger, morally gray devotion, and prose with a ledger's edge. In C. Maren Lawe's worlds, survival has always had a price. Her heroines refuse to be the coin that settles it.

The Tideless, Book One of The Tidemere
Book One of The Tidemere

The Tideless

She was raised to balance their ledgers. She was bred to drown their kingdom.

For twenty-three years, Verienne has kept the books of House Aldecourt. A foundling with a gift for numbers, and a secret she has spent her life pretending not to hear. Water answers her.

When a tithe-ship returns wrong and a prisoner from the deep names her the door, her careful life breaks open. The sea rises through the walls. The house that raised her turns hunter. And below the flooded gate waits Rhael, the feared Tideless: cracked hands, dark-gold eyes, and truths sharp enough to cut.

He does not offer safety. He offers the sea. Below the waves lies Maelis, a drowned city of dying light and ancient grief, where Verienne is not a captive but the answer to a thousand years of prayer. And every prayer has a cost.

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The First World

The Tidemere

A six-book saga of love, debt, and the terrible things kingdoms do when they are too afraid to die. It begins with The Tideless. The first of many worlds C. Maren Lawe will drown and raise. One tide of six. The water is only rising.

Book one of six. Only the first tide.
About

C. Maren Lawe writes the kind of romantasy that pulls you under and keeps you there. Lush, dangerous, and unwilling to look away from what love costs. The Tideless is where it begins: the first breath held before a six-book descent.