Mireia, a girl from a small fishing village, is torn out of her simple life when she’s chosen as a candidate for the Sea Mother, the goddess who incarnates as a human in each generation. Now she must travel to the Great Citadel, the capital of Atalantis, to test her supposed divinity alongside her counterpart the Sun Father, the boy everyone says she’s destined to marry.

But Mireia knows nothing about this boy, and she’s never liked the idea of “destiny.” Surrounded by scheming politicians and violent religious extremists, Mireia must learn to navigate her new life and find her own destiny. Though if the prophecies of her island’s doom are correct, her destiny may be sooner than she thinks…