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LUNATIDE
She was never unclaimed.
She was chosen.
A contemporary mythic fantasy about identity, power, and the tides that call us home. Alaura Hayes was abandoned — until the ocean started answering back.
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THE STORY
Alaura Hayes was abandoned and thought she had no one but her friends. Foster care taught her that early. By the time she graduates law school she's learned how to survive without expecting more from the world.
Then the ocean starts responding to her. And everything she thought she knew about who she is — and where she came from — begins to surface.
Alaura Hayes wasn't abandoned. She was hidden.
Her existence was never supposed to be known. Now the truth is rising — and so is her power. In a world that fears what it cannot control, Alaura must choose between the life she built and the power she was born to wield.
The tide is rising — and this time, she will not be pulled under.
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She thought she was starting her life.
Instead, something ancient has already claimed her.
Alaura Hayes built everything she has from nothing — no family, no safety net, no one to call. After years of discipline and sacrifice, she's finally standing at the edge of the future she fought for.
Then reality begins to fracture. The water moves when she hasn't touched it. A melody finds her in places water shouldn't reach. And the world she has always known reveals itself as a surface — beneath it, something vast and very old has been watching her for a long time.
A world of power and contract, where certain people were never meant to have standing. Where the ocean keeps what the land tries to erase. And where Alaura's existence is not an accident — it is a threat to everything that has been built to contain her.
The absence she grew up with was not abandonment.
It was protection.
And what she was hidden from is coming regardless.
LUNATIDE is a contemporary mythic fantasy about power, inheritance, and the dangerous pull between enemies who were never meant to fall.
Book One of the Tideborn Series
She thought she was starting her life.
Instead, something ancient has already claimed her.
Alaura Hayes built everything she has from nothing — no family, no safety net, no one to call. After years of discipline and sacrifice, she's finally standing at the edge of the future she fought for.
Then reality begins to fracture. The water moves when she hasn't touched it. A melody finds her in places water shouldn't reach. And the world she has always known reveals itself as a surface — beneath it, something vast and very old has been watching her for a long time.
A world of power and contract, where certain people were never meant to have standing. Where the ocean keeps what the land tries to erase. And where Alaura's existence is not an accident — it is a threat to everything that has been built to contain her.
The absence she grew up with was not abandonment.
It was protection.
And what she was hidden from is coming regardless.
LUNATIDE is a contemporary mythic fantasy about power, inheritance, and the dangerous pull between enemies who were never meant to fall.
Book One of the Tideborn Series
Preorder edition available for purchase until July 27, 2025.
MICKA HILL
Some stories don't ask permission. They surface whether you're ready or not.
Micka Hill is the author of dark and mythic fantasy featuring Black women at the center of worlds that were always meant to belong to them. Her stories live at the intersection of ancient power and modern identity — where inheritance isn't just what's left behind, but what refuses to stay buried.
Her debut novel Lunatide — Book One of the Tideborn Series — follows Alaura Hayes, a law school graduate who spent her whole life believing she was no one's. She wasn't abandoned. She was hidden. And the ocean has been waiting.
Micka Hill writes for the readers who needed to see a Black girl chosen. Not rescued. Not explained. Just chosen — by power, by destiny, by the tide that was always hers.
She was never unclaimed. She was chosen.
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