Rinai Tidemaela is a desperate Tide-Runner with a dwindling bank account, nine mouths to feed, and a talent for bending luck. When a high-stakes tavern wager goes sideways, Rinai risks everything by forcefully ripping a stranger’s fate thread to secure his win. But tampering with the cosmic tapestry does not go unnoticed. Hunted by celestial enforcers, Rinai faces a ruthless fate-theft trial that threatens to strip away his very future. Can a man accustomed to manipulating fortune survive a world where the universe no longer cares?