"Against Dark Waters"

A glowing imperial ship has sailed into Nirsuathu carrying someone drawn by a professor’s newly created magic. Tyatavar feels change coming to her city, even if her own life remains stagnant--she's stuck running the family bakery while her sister studies the mysterious new magic. Only now, she has a stolen vial, one can carry her through the world's waters--if only she could control it. If only she hadn't almost died using it. But with obligation pressing in around her, Tyatavar turns to the vial as an escape, night after night. As the secret weighs on her, she edges closer to telling the glass merchant who visits the bakery each morning--and who knows what it is to fail. But Tyatavar has grown used to keeping secrets, and this one is tangled up in the unwanted marriage looming before her. Using the vial strains her daily life and raises risky questions. But even through its mysteries, it offers something she didn't have before: choice.