A young adult contemporary novel following Eliza Mirk, a shy and socially isolated teenager who secretly creates the massively popular webcomic Monstrous Sea. While she thrives online as an anonymous creator, she struggles with anxiety, loneliness, and the pressures of real-life relationships. When she befriends Wallace Warland, one of her comic’s biggest fans, Eliza begins to confront the gap between her online identity and her real self. The novel explores creativity, fandom, mental health, friendship, and first love.