Child of a Hidden Sea

Child of a Hidden Sea is the first novel of the Hidden Sea Tales by A. M. Dellamonica. It was published on 24 June 2014 by Tor Books.

Plot
One minute, twenty-four-year-old Sophie Hansa is in a San Francisco alley trying to save the life of the aunt she has never known. The next, she finds herself flung into the warm and salty waters of an unfamiliar world. Glowing moths fall to the waves around her, and the sleek bodies of unseen fish glide against her submerged ankles.

The world is Stormwrack, a series of island nations with a variety of cultures and economies—and a language different from any Sophie has heard. Sophie doesn’t know it yet, but she has just stepped into the middle of a political firestorm, and a conspiracy that could destroy a world she has just discovered…her world, where everyone seems to know who she is, and where she is forbidden to stay.

But Sophie is stubborn, and smart, and refuses to be cast adrift by people who don’t know her and yet wish her gone. With the help of a sister she has never known, and a ship captain who would rather she had never arrived, she must navigate the shoals of the highly charged politics of Stormwrack, and win the right to decide for herself whether she stays in this wondrous world…or is doomed to exile!

Characters
Clydon Banning ♦ Bastien ♦ Boris ♦ Antonio Capodoccio ♦ John Coine ♦ Lais Dariach ♦ Dega ♦ Dracy ♦ Beatrice Feliachild ♦ Gale Feliachild ♦ Verena Vanko Feliachild ♦ Annela Gracechild ♦ Grigo ♦ Bramwell Hansa ♦ Sophie Hansa ♦ Garland Parrish ♦ Ralo

Ships

 * Ascension
 * Estrel
 * Nightjar
 * Temperance

Places
Bristlemere ♦ Greatwater ♦ Erinth ♦ Erstwhile ♦ Isle of Gold ♦ Northwater ♦ Redcap ♦ Sea of Bounty ♦ Sea of Tranquillity ♦ Spidersilk ♦ Stele Island ♦ Stormwrack ♦ Sumpter ♦ Sylvanna ♦ Tallon ♦ Tiladene ♦ Ualtar ♦ Verdanii ♦ Viemere ♦ Wrayland ♦ Zunbrit Passage

Other
Allmother ♦ Cessation of Hostilities ♦ Convene ♦ Convenor ♦ Duelist-Adjudicator ♦ Fleet of Nations ♦ Fleet Compact ♦ Fleet Courier ♦ Fleetspeak ♦ Kir ♦ magic ♦ mezmer ♦ Piracy ♦ Raiders' War ♦ Writs of Exception ♦ Yacoura Tempranza