A Letter to the Luminous Deep

Sylvie Cathrall

Book 1 of The Sunken Archive

Language: English

Publisher: Orbit

Published: Apr 23, 2024

Description:

★ An Amazon Best Book of the Month
★ An IndieNext Pick 
“An underwater treasure-chest to be slowly unpacked, full of things I adore.” —Freya Marske

A charming fantasy set in an underwater world with magical academia and a heartwarming penpal romance, perfect for fans of Emily Wilde's Encylopaedia of Faeries and The House in the Cerulean Sea.
E. is content with a solitary life in her extraordinary underwater home, until the discovery of a strange, beautiful creature outside her window prompts her to begin a correspondence with renowned scholar Henerey Clel. The letters they share are filled with passion, at first for their mutual interests, and then, inevitably, for each other.
But when a mysterious seaquake destroys E.'s home, she and Henerey vanish.
A year later, E.'s sister Sophy and Henerey's brother, Vyerin, must piece together...