Tides of Treachery (Beyond the Faerie Rath Book) by Hanna Park

  

Tides of Treachery

(Beyond the Faerie Rath Book)

By Hanna Park

Publication Date: 30th June 2026

Publisher: Baisong Press

Power was never the danger. Want was.

On Samhain night, with treachery seated beside the throne and the dead stirring beneath the House of Faces, Macha felt him at her back—steady, lethal, far too close. She was meant to hold Ulaid together, not crave the man sworn to protect her. But desire turned every choice into something dangerous.

Ruairi had already crossed death once. Macha was far more dangerous.

Macha stood before him with fire in her eyes while Ulaid cracked apart around her, and every vow he’d sworn strained toward breaking. He was her blade, her shield, the last thing standing between her and the darkness rising through the court. He was never meant to want her like this.

The dead had always spoken to Breda. She never expected them to speak his name.

As the House of Faces began to fracture, the whispers pulled her toward truths long buried within Ulaid—and toward a shadowed man who felt more like a warning than salvation. The dead were no longer content to whisper.

Cian lived with the damage he helped create—and the woman he could not save.

Old magic bound him to grief, guilt, and a past that refused to stay buried. Love had failed them before. It might fail them again.

As Samhain descends, loyalties fracture, the dead grow restless, and Ulaid begins to unravel.

Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Cover Art: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

I've enjoyed Hanna Park's books before, so this was always going to be one I picked up.

The thing that kept me turning the pages was the mystery. Every time I thought I had a handle on what was going on, something else would be revealed, and I needed to know more. There was always that feeling that something wasn't quite right beneath the surface.

I also loved the setting. Castle Rock has such a strong presence in the story that it almost felt like another character. The House of Faces was probably my favourite part of the entire book. Every scene involving it grabbed my attention.

Macha and Ruairi were easy characters to become invested in. I found myself rooting for them from quite early on, and I liked that the romance was given room to develop rather than being rushed.

The reason this ended up being a four-star read for me rather than a five-star one is simply that there were a few points where I felt I was missing something in the mythology. That's probably more down to me than the book. I suspect readers who are more familiar with Celtic folklore will get even more out of it than I did.

That said, I was never tempted to put the book down. In fact, I stayed up far later than I intended more than once because I kept telling myself I'd stop at the next chapter.

I'll definitely be reading the next book.

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Hanna Park

I began my writing career in the pre-dawn of a winter morning while my husband snored like a train. We could call my husband the catalyst. If it weren’t for him, I would never have gone to the kitchen to make a pot of coffee, feed the cat, and sit on the loveseat in front of the fire. It was there, in those moments of wondrous quiet, that I did something I had never thought possible. I opened my laptop, and while the coffee went cold, I wrote a story. My husband had no idea that these sojourns to the loveseat in front of the fire would become a daily occurrence, that writing would become an obsession, but the cat knew. She knows everything.

I write stories that make you laugh, make you cry, and make you love. Thank you, friends, for reading!

In the beginning, there was an empty page.

I am a writer who lives in Muskoka, Canada, with a husband who snores, a hungry cat, and an almost perfect canine––he’s an adorable little shit.

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