The Drowned Woods (2022)

Mer's water magic makes her essential to a job against the prince who exploited it, but she needs companions whose motives are less easy to measure. A cursed man, a thief and an unusually useful corgi give the party character as well as capability. Read for a compact heist shaped by Welsh legend and the question of who can be trusted with power. Its young-adult fairy-tale manner carries a history of mass death and coercion.