Song of the Drowned SirenA Twisted Little Mermaid Retelling

She sold her voice to the Sea Witch for a chance on land, and the price turned desire into debt.

To save her family, a coastal girl bartered away her voice to the Sea Witch, and the bargain carved a new rule into her bones.

She lived on a knife-edge shoreline where storms stole boats and hunger stole sleep. When her father’s nets came up empty, and collectors came for blood, she made the only trade left. Legs for land. Silence for a season. One clean chance to win protection from a prince who never learned her name.

The Sea Witch kept the contract in ink and salt. Each step on land burned. Each lie tasted like drowning. Each night, the tide pulled at her pulse, reminding her who owned the debt.

The prince glittered behind palace walls, beautiful, distant, and promised to another. His court praised her grace while circling for weakness. In the dark halls beneath the ballroom, something older watched from mirrors of black water.

She came for a rescue. She found a court built on rot, a prince bound to a curse, and a Sea Witch who collected devotion like coin. Desire rose anyway, sharp, messy, and dangerous, because the monster in the deep offered what the prince never did. Attention. Protection. Possession.

When the Witch demands a final payment, she must choose. Return to the sea as a drowned ghost, or claim the darkness, break the palace, and learn what a siren becomes when silence stops being obedience.

Wicked Ever After Book Nine. Each book stands alone, with a complete dark fantasy romance and a twisted fairy-tale spine.