The Wells Beneath the Salt Moon: She Faked the Gift That Could Save a Dying World. Then the Water Answered. Romance Fantasy

On Arvessa, water is more valuable than gold—and Nara makes her living pretending she can find it.

Calling herself a water witch is just another con. Stay clever, keep the marks believing, take what she needs, and leave before anyone discovers the truth.

Then she crosses paths with Kael and the City in the Garnet Hollow.

The hidden city controls vast underground water reserves through ancient grids and secrets powerful enough to shape an entire desert planet. Its rulers cannot afford weakness, outsiders are circling, and the wrong person gaining access to its wells could change the balance of power forever.

Nara should run.

Instead, her latest deception pulls her deeper into a struggle involving foreign interests, political betrayal, missing water, and a man she finds increasingly difficult to leave behind.

Worse, something impossible is happening.

Underground currents begin making sense to her. Places she should not recognize feel familiar. Memories buried beyond her reach start pressing against the edges of her mind.

Nara has always survived by becoming whatever people needed to believe she was.

But beneath the salt moon, the water seems to know exactly who she is.

If her lie is exposed, she could lose her life.

If the truth surfaces first, she may discover that her greatest con was the story she believed about herself.