Irene

Some call it healing.

Some call it surrender.

The ocean calls it truth.

Dr. Irene Alvarez has spent her life holding everything together-patients, systems, crises that never seem to end. When exhaustion finally forces her to a remote cliffside retreat, she expects rest. What she finds instead is something watching her from the water below.

The sea does not comfort.

It remembers.

As the retreat's promises of wellness begin to fracture, Irene discovers that the ocean is not merely vast, but aware-and that it recognizes something in her she has spent years trying to ignore. Beneath the waves lies an ancient boundary between control and surrender, mercy and clarity, warmth and truth.

Guided by guardians older than memory and drawn toward a presence as beautiful as it is unyielding, Irene must confront a question no therapy has prepared her for:

What happens when mercy is no longer gentle?

Tides of Mercy is a mythic fantasy about transformation, power, and the cost of seeing clearly-where the sea does not save you, but neither does it lie.

A standalone novel set within the wider mythos of Irene.