Mira Prenar just wants to go home for Winter Solstice with passing grades and all her fingers intact. Instead, a desperate North tracker kneels in a crowded inn and swears fealty—crowning her with a bond she never asked for and cannot shake.

An erratic Ice Queen stirs in the Far, Far North, and strange magic seeps into Breadcove Bay. When Mira receives a key tied to the Sea Queen herself, she becomes the one thin thread between two rival powers: sea and storm, warmth and killing cold. 

The Sea Queen's Key is a cozy steampunk fantasy about a young woman who would really rather hand this problem to somebody more qualified — but steps up when the world needs her anyway.