The Tin Lark

Every machine has a true note — the sound it makes when it's right. Fifteen-year-old June Okafor has spent her whole life listening for it, coaxing dead engines back to life with a bare palm and a whispered promise. But no one wants a girl who can hear what's broken. They just don't want to pay for her anymore.

Aged out of her berth and drowning in debt that was never meant to come out even, June does the only thing that's ever worked: she makes herself useful, quiet, and impossible to leave behind. When a battered salvage airship called the Tin Lark limps into port on three good thrusters and a prayer — the ugliest thing June has ever loved on sight — she stows away in its belly, chasing the one thing she's never had. A home that flies away, and takes her with it.

The Tin Lark and her crew are salvagers of the Singing Deep, chasing the echoes of a drowned world beneath waters that remember everything. There's treasure enough down there to clear every debt forever — if the haunting songs of the deep don't lure the crew to ruin first. But June has hidden herself aboard a ship whose captain has one iron rule: we don't take strays. And when their next routine dive uncovers something the ocean was never meant to surrender, every fault line on the Tin Lark begins to sing.

Loyalties fray. Secrets surface. The line between salvager and treasure-hunter blurs, and the deeper they go, the louder the deep calls each of them by name.

Told in a warm, wry, aching voice and drawn with breathtaking underwater vistas and heart-pounding, manga-style action, The Tin Lark is a sweeping graphic-novel adventure about debt and belonging, and the found family you'd risk everything to keep. Perfect for fans of grand fantasy quests and crews you'll root for until your chest hurts.

Some songs, once heard, can't be unheard. Dive into the Singing Deep.