The Tide Runners

by Marie-Hélène Lebeault Author

From the author of the acclaimed Evers Series. Beck North grew up watching the tidegate runners — couriers who carry sealed messages between worlds through shimmering portals in the harbor. On the day he takes the runner's oath, Beck inherits his missing father's bronze tideclock and his first route assignment. Six hours later, he's outrunning a secret cult in a living coral reef and finding a symbol that shouldn't exist carved into the walls. The storm cult is supposed to be the enemy. The Runner Command is supposed to be trustworthy. And Beck's father is supposed to be dead. None of that turns out to be true. Alongside his fast-talking best friend Tack and the relentlessly precise Zuri, Beck runs routes through floating markets, tide-locked gardens, and a hurricane-wrapped fortress at the edge of the known worlds. The deeper they go, the clearer it becomes: someone is building a machine to enslave every tidegate in existence — and the only person who knows how to stop it is Beck's father, who's been a prisoner for two years. A breakneck adventure about loyalty, the cost of keeping promises, and what it really means to run toward danger when you could run away from it. The Tidepost Chronicles, Book 1. The adventure continues.