Release Countdown Blitz: The Girl Who Swam Between Worlds (The Maiden Saga, book 1) by C. M. Koch

🔥 Hello, Hello, Bookdragons! 🔥  

We’re thrilled to announce that we are organizing a Release Countdown Blitz for The Girl Who Swam Between Worlds (The Maiden Saga, book 1) by C. M. Koch
Mark your calendars because the action kicks off on September 10th and will continue until September 19th (Release Day), and we need YOUR help to bring the hype, the sparkle, and all the bookish love!

Are you ready to slay this tour with us? Let’s make this story the talk of every feed!

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Book Detail

Some stories are meant to be told. Others are meant to unfold.

 Ivy Medina lives a simple life. At the ripe old age of 16, she spends her weekdays being homeschooled and her weekends exploring the ocean of the beach she lives on. But on this already peculiar day, her mind decides to conjure up a most vivid dream where she swims through an underwater tunnel and into the captivating world of Harukai, eerily similar to her mother’s whimsical fairytales.

Only Harukai is anything but a dream, and upon returning home, everything she’s ever known is quite literally torn from her hands as her mother is taken captive. Now trapped in Harukai after being dragged away against her will, Ivy ends up living inside a tree, inherits a pile of old books, and finds a sword made of glass.

With a mysteriously friendly faun and a flirtatious, yet slightly irritating, merfolk by her side, Ivy reads more than she ever had in her life, and learns how to fight, all in the name of finding a way home and rescuing her mother. But her search leads to her discovering the truth about her past, her present, and her future, causing relentless questions to flood her mind: Why was her mother taken? Who is Ivy to these people? And is she really as trapped in this world as she first thought?

The Girl Who Swam Between Worlds 

Series: The Maiden Saga, Book 1

Expected Publication: September 19th, 2025

Genres: Young adult high fantasy

Format For the Hosts:  ARC, eBook (Digital)

Add it to your TBR if you love:

• Single POV 
• Hidden Realm
• Found Family
• Motherly Love
• Prophecy
• Slow-burn romance subplot
• Identity crisis
• Too many questions (not enough answers)
• They touch hands
• Strangers to friends to “why did you do this” to friends again to lovers (across four books)

Comparable Authors/Books

• The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (C. S. Lewis), Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Lewis Carrol)

Spice Level

• No sexual content

Trigger Warnings

• Implications of captivity, purposeful harm to oneself (on-screen, but not specifically self-harm, only purposefully doing something despite the potential for it to cause physical harm), being forcefully taken from parents (on-screen)

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Book Tour Details:

• We are looking for active and engaging Bookstagrammers to hype up this book for the Release Tour.
• Hosts will receive E-book copies of The Girl Who Swam Between Worlds as a thank-you Gift.
• Reading of the book is NOT required for the Tour
• Open internationally!

Note: This Tour will occur from September 10th to September 19th (Release Day), 2025. You will be assigned a date in your email (with all the relevant stuff) so make sure you are available on the designated date to participate.

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Note: Please keep in mind that signing up does not guarantee you a spot in the tour since copies/spots are limited. If we cannot include you on this tour, we encourage you to keep signing up because more exciting opportunities are coming soon!  We consider bookstagram accounts of all sizes that consistently feature books, show creativity, and love engaging with the community! If selected as a host, you’ll receive a confirmation email once sign-ups close.