The Fomorians lost at Mag Tuired. Everyone knows that story.

But Nessa Dowd can hear what the water remembers, and the water is not done.

Something old has moved under Corryvreckan ? older than Balor, smaller than legend, and far more dangerous for having hidden beneath a famous name. It is not a return. It is an echo. And echoes carry the shape of what made them.

With Finn, April, Jack, and the rest of a team still marked by the last fight, Nessa follows the signal north ? into the Gulf, through a city where ink moves on its own, and toward a name so old it has survived by refusing to be written down.

Steven Infanti is the author of The Debt of Moytura series, The Blood & Gold Saga ? a mythic retelling of the Siegfried legend ? Bob the Caretaker, The Regulars, Devils Around the Clock, Shadow of Blood, and What Fear Owes. His work blends history, myth, and emotional precision, returning ancient stories to the weight and complexity they were always meant to carry.

A veteran of the U.S. Army, he holds a B.A. in Journalism from Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania and two Master of Science degrees from Harrisburg University of Science and Technology. He is currently pursuing his doctorate at Franklin University. He lives in Lebanon, Pennsylvania, with his wife, Elizabeth.