by Ryu Cipher
Two completely different lives collapse under the same alien sky when twenty-one-year-old fisherman Reed Carter is betrayed and pushed into a murderous storm, only to wake up unharmed inside the locked treasure vault of a moving pirate flagship, and high-IQ detective Kang Ji-ah is ambushed into a freezing river, only to open her eyes on a tropical shore. Branded by a mysterious power, Reed throws himself into the dangerous life of a border bounty hunter to exact vengeance on the man who left him for dead, while Ji-ah uses her clinical intellect and a supernatural gold coin to systematically dismantle the politics of kings and calculate a mathematical path back home. Completely unaware of each other but driven by a fierce, unspoken determination to conquer the mysteries of the world they are trapped in, their paths set a course toward an unstoppable convergence where every decision will reshape their destinies before the rising tides of a lawless blue ocean swallow them whole.
