Crown of the Sleepless Deep

The thing in the fog tore through Jace Mercer’s chest—and his new System rewarded him for swallowing its fear. He had been dead for less than a minute when the collapsing lighthouse gave him one choice: reach its dying Anchor or be digested by the Deep. Lira Vance, the Anchorwright guarding the light, would rather watch him drown than trust a foul-mouthed corpse with her mother’s last invention. But Jace can eat fear, turn nightmares into power, and grow stronger with every monster he devours—if the Deep doesn’t consume his mind first. With an exiled war captain at his back and an army of Sleepless Patrol boots closing in, he must build a city from one dying lighthouse before the ancient horrors beneath the sea wake up. Stay hidden and lose the Anchor—or light the death signal, claim the nightmare sea, and challenge everything waiting below.