On a fortified island in the heart of the oceans, a woman confronts the sea, the empire and her own ghosts. Nefport will... or will sink with it. Anellis Hurt, the daughter of a pirate captain betrayed by the Brotherhood, swore to never again take the sea. From now on, Nefport's mistress, the last counter before the Tumult Ocean, she imposes a single law: no blood shed in her fort. But when a pirate ship fails on her docks, pursued by the imperial fleet of the formidable Kjall, Nefport becomes the theatre of a brutal siege. Between her honor, her son and the survival of her fortified island, Anellis will have to become again the one she has always fled: a daughter of the storm.