Khosa is Given to the Sea, a girl born to be fed to the water, her flesh preventing a wave like the one that destroyed the Kingdom of Stille in days of old. But before she s allowed to dance an uncontrollable twitching of the limbs that will carry her to the shore in a frenzy she must produce an heir. Yet the thought of human touch sends shudders down her spine that not even the sound of the tide can match.