Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Eye of Leviathan | 2026 | M.A. Carrick | Buy |
The Sea Beyond opens a second large-scale series from M.A. Carrick, shifting the setting from the Venice-inspired Nadezra of Rook and Rose to a world built around the Spanish Golden Age. The Eye of Leviathan (2026) establishes a world in which maps hold genuine power: cartographers can alter reality by drawing it, and that power makes them both indispensable and dangerous to the empire that depends on them.
The series centres on a faerie changeling and the human girl whose place he took at birth — two people whose lives are bound together by a faerie pact that simultaneously connects them and keeps them apart. Both are caught up in the violence of a world-spanning colonial empire whose operations depend on cartographic power. The premise extends the duo’s long-running interest in identity — who you are versus who you are forced to be — into a new historical and magical framework.
The Eye of Leviathan was published by Orbit in 2026 and signals an equally ambitious project to the Rook and Rose trilogy, with the same structural care and depth of world-building that characterised that series.