After being stolen, bound, and sold, Halveria escapes her captors only when a storm shatters their ship. She throws herself into the sea rather than drown in chains, fighting for a life no one else meant her to keep.

When she wakes on a remote island, wounded but alive, she is in the care of Bacariell, the Water Fae guardian of a quiet seaside sanctum.

He calls her Tidegift.

To Halveria, the name feels like a blessing. A second chance. A strange pull toward the quiet, beautiful guardian who heals her wounds, steadies her fear, and watches her as if the tide itself delivered her into his care.

But Bacariell’s life is built on vows he cannot break. Love, desire, and devotion have no place in the duty that keeps him bound to the sanctum and the secretive village it protects.

Yet the bond forming between them refuses to be denied.

When the sea begins to stir and the island’s secrets rise with the tide, Halveria discovers that safety can become another kind of cage, and the man who saved her may be the one asked to surrender her.

Some vows are stronger than desire.
Some bonds are stronger than vows.
And some gifts are worth defying the tide to keep.

Tidegift & the Water Guardian is a spicy romantasy novella filled with fated bonds, sacred vows, forbidden longing, sea magic, hidden island secrets, and a Water Fae guardian torn between duty and the woman the tide brought to his shore.

Contains mature themes, sensual intimacy, and the emotional weight of fantasy love stories where hearts are tested and happily ever afters are earned.