A Net Full of Names

A Retelling of Rán*

For centuries, the sea has taken the living and returned only what it chooses.

Rán knows what waits beneath the surface. She is the keeper of the drowned, the woman who casts her net into the dark waters and gathers those whom the sea has claimed. Alongside her nine daughters, she carries out an ancient duty governed by a simple but terrible rule: the dead cannot truly be finished until someone among the living speaks their name into the water.

But names are more than words. They are memories, identities, and the last fragile threads connecting the dead to those who remain.

As Rán continues her endless work, the boundary between duty and grief begins to blur. Each body brought from the depths carries a story, a forgotten identity, or a connection to someone still searching for answers. Her daughters, each shaped by the sea in different ways, inherit not only her power but also the burden of deciding what should be remembered and what the world is willing to forget.

Among them is Bylgja, whose growing understanding of the sea and its secrets forces Rán to confront the possibility that her daughters may not simply inherit her duty—they may question it.

Through the voice of an ancient goddess, A Net Full of Names explores death, memory, identity, motherhood, grief, and the strange power of being remembered. Drawing on Norse mythology while creating its own intimate supernatural world, the novel reimagines Rán not as a distant mythological figure, but as a woman carrying the weight of countless names beneath the waves.

Because sometimes the dead do not disappear.

Sometimes, they are only waiting for someone to remember who they were.

A Net Full of Names

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