The Siren Mage · #2

In the Wake of the Ruined

Kalie Cassidy

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A powerful Siren must face the monster threatening her home, even if it means risking everything—including the king she’s grown to love—in this dark and romantic follow-up to In the Veins of the Drowning.

The realm has a new queen… and a new monster.

Imogen can no longer hide. She has claimed her ancestral crown, and now the corrupted bond she shares with the ancient deity Eusia is stronger than ever. Though she is determined to sever it, doing so is no easy feat. The threat of war looms. Shifting alliances, a hunger for magic, and her feelings for Theodore, King of Varya, attempt to thwart her at every turn.

Meanwhile, Theodore is battling the strain of his own crown and commitments. When Imogen suddenly appears on his ship, every dutiful resolution he’s ever made threatens to snap. As they draw nearer to ending Eusia, lurking dangers and their perilous desire for one another prove more insurmountable than they could have imagined. Will the chaos, ruin, and death that Imogen was prophesied to usher into the realm be the end of all things, or the beginning?

Published
July 7, 2026
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Kalie Cassidy

Kalie Cassidy writes the kind of fantasy that feels like slipping beneath dark waters, mysterious, lyrical, and quietly dangerous. Her debut novel, In the Veins of the Drowning (2025), invites readers into a world of winged sirens, fractured kingdoms, and a heroine caught between survival and self-discovery. It is the first book in The Siren Mage series, a romantic fantasy steeped in political tension, cultural myth, and the raw pull of identity. Cassidy grew up in Southern California, where the Pacific’s edge and her Puerto Rican and Irish heritage shaped how she saw the world, as both belonging and apart. Before turning to fiction, she…