From Adrienne Young,New York Times bestselling author of Sky in the Deepcomes her new gut-wrenching epic The Girl the Sea Gave Back. For as long as she can rememberTova has lived among the Svellthe people who found her washed ashore as a child and use her for her gift as a Truthtongue. Her own home and clan are long-faded memoriesbut the sacred symbols and staves inked over every inch of her skin mark her as one who can cast the rune stones and see into the future. She has found a fragile place among those who fear herbut when two clans to the east bury their age-old blood feud and join together as oneher world is dangerously close to collapse. For the first time in generationsthe leaders of the Svell are divided. Should they maintain peace or go to war with the allied clans to protect their newfound power? And when their chieftain looks to Tova to cast the stonesshe sets into motion a series of events that will not only change the landscape of the mainland forever but will give her something she believed she could never have againΓÇöa home.