Book 1 of The Depths Below trilogy. When Ronan was thirteen and started giving people electrical shocks whenever he touched them, he asked his mom why it was happening. She immediately answered static electricity. When he tried to explain that he knew it wasn't static she changed her story saying instead that his father used him as a lightning rod during a bad storm and he happened to be hit by a strong bolt. And for some reason he believed that story... Now... nine years later, he's found he can do more than shock people. He can talk to fish. He thought about asking his mother how something like that could be possible, but he doesn't think he'd get a straight answer. He's beginning to think she's keeping something from him.

Laken is a siren who has never been in the ocean. Forbidden from venturing beneath the waves by his overprotective mermaid mother, Laken lives a life of constant fear, of lies. His human facade is shattered when dragons enter the school, putting everything Laken knows on the line. Secrets lie beneath the waves, and the nightmares Laken was taught to fear are slowly becoming an inescapable reality. As enemies become allies, Laken must figure out who to trust before the tides of war shift.

Ari Callahan has no idea how to talk to boys -- or how to talk to anyone for that matter. Enter Zac, the cute new guy in town who won't stop texting her. But is his interest real, or does he have a hidden agenda? ***** Found as a young child washed up on the beach, 17-year-old Ari Callahan has never uttered a word out loud to anyone -- not even her adoptive family. Psychologists have diagnosed her with a condition called selective mutism, but Ari can't help identifying with her namesake character, Ariel, the little mermaid in the fairytale whose voice was stolen by a sea witch. Mermaid-obsession aside, Ari's silence makes socializing tough. She's never had a boyfriend or been asked out on a date. Not until Zac, the confident new arrival in town, asks for her number. But Zac has his own reasons for texting with Ari. He's part of a movement to sabotage the artificial music app called SirenSong, threatening to render human singing obsolete. Zac's collaborators have scoured the globe in search of a singing voice perfect enough to break the SirenSong spell, and their search has led them straight to Ari's beachside town. Will her relationship with Zac help Ari find her voice and unlock the secrets of her origins? Or will he use her and leave her high and dry? Title: Ari and Zac (formerly The Mermaid Hypothesis) Content Warning: This story contains references to selective mutism, suicidal thoughts, and early childhood trauma.

Each baby born beneath the waves is killed--with one exception: the one hundred thousandth is spared. There's one rule shared between the island's tribes: don't touch the water. When Cressa-la breaks this law, her world, and body, changes. Sure, change is normal... but when has growing scales ever been normal? • • • Watty Award Winner 2015: Best Use of Visuals • • • Each baby born beneath the waves is killed--with one exception: the one hundred thousandth is spared. Among the spared, magic chooses a rare few, connecting them to the moon or sea. These are the One-Hundreds, mermaids and humans with the power to save the world-or corrupt it. When Cressa-la breaks the first rule of her tribe and touches the water surrounding her island, everything she knows turns on its head. Talking, sinister dolphins, mind control, and a whole world just under the waves await her on her eigteenth birthday... but she never asked for any of this. All she wanted was to become a Tribe Leader and take care of her village. It's amazing how one screw-up can change everything. A relentless darkness reaches for her, wanting her affections for his own twisted purposes. In opposition stands a fractured light, haunted by a painful past where corruption eroded friendship. Unless Cressa-la can bring the darkness to his knees and fight the war raging inside, the world is doomed. • • • Content warning: This story contains themes of depression and violence.

Born with a passion for the water and a remarkable talent for swimming, it's no wonder that Rayne Bennett spends more time in the pool than she does on land. But when family secrets become unearthed and lies are uprooted, Rayne realizes that her passion for the water goes farther back than she could have ever imagined. When Rayne finds herself moving back to her quiet birthplace of Shady Cove, things start to unravel even faster. What really happened to her mother, who had (supposedly) been killed thirteen years ago? Why does Rayne feel such an intimate connection with the ocean? The answers, as she will soon find out, come at a cost so great that her life-as well as the lives of those she loves-is in grave danger. Though she doesn't know it, Rayne is the key to unlocking the mysteries that dwell just beneath the ocean's surface. She is the answer to the secrets of the deep. [ adventure #5, fantasy #6 ]

1952, pós Segunda Guerra Mundial. Cordelia vive com sua mãe e seu pai, até este desaparecer após um misterioso acidente no mar. A mãe, enlouquecida, também some; restando apenas a jovem e o mar - seu melhor amigo e seu pior nêmesis. E é nele que Cordelia deposita sua última esperança de encontrar a felicidade. Cordelia desiste de sua vida neste mundo aos dezenove anos de idade e, involuntariamente, renasce em outro. Pois, assim como o Sol se apaixonou pela Lua, Orfeu por Eurídice e Romeu por Julieta, o Rei dos Mares se apaixonou pela humana. E, assim como o Sol nunca ilumina parte da Lua, Orfeu nunca retornou com Eurídice para o mundo dos vivos e os Montéquios odiavam os Capuletos, o Rei dos Mares abominava a espécie humana. Do outro lado do mar, um longo esquecido reino procura sua vingança. Do lado de fora, humanos procuram os Reinos marinhos, sejam quais forem os meios. Dentro, uma antiga profecia se concretiza e Cordelia descobre que é muito mais do que realmente pensa que é. Poderia um amor tão impossível como esse florescer logo com o retorno de uma guerra antiga - ou nem tão antiga assim?

Evan não suporta mais aquele lugar. Tudo o que ele quer é sair dali,e deixar as lembranças que o consome todos os dias,e as memórias daquela velha cabana pra trás. A vista para a praia sempre o encantou. Acordar de manhã, com a brisa no seu rosto,o cheiro de areia e o gosto do sal na boca,eram um momento de êxtase Mas ele não sentia mais nada por aquele lugar. Pelo menos não depois de sua mãe ser brutalmente assassinada por. uma criatura que todos alegam ser um tubarão. Mas Evan sabia que não havia sido isso. Ele sentia isso. O corpo havia sumido. Somente as roupas ensanguentadas haviam sido encontradas na orla. Mas pra onde ele iria? Ele não tinha nada. Ele não tinha ninguém. Só haviam aquela velha cabana,suas memórias e as vozes. As vozes Ele achava que estava ficando louco... Às vezes,era como se o mar... Estivesse gritando seu nome.

Mestiço e de pele albina, sempre fui rejeitado e humilhado pelo povo durante toda a minha vida por ser diferente. Meu maior desejo era ser amado, mas nunca havia experimentado o real sentimento até o dia em que conheci Aiken, o Rei dos Mares, que em um momento inusitado me estendeu a mão. Desde então me vi envolvido em sensações inexplicáveis diante de Aiken, em um mundo repleto de regras e preconceitos. Os segredos sobre minha origem e as batalhas que enfrentarei estão só no começo e meu verdadeiro obstáculo está oculto nas águas... ♆ LIVRO EM DEGUSTAÇÃO - COMPLETO NA AMAZON ♆ Playlist da historia no Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7nvKejYMEnWIERnWUHkzSb?si=upZIxqwaRKmecVCb6_OiUg SEQUENCIAS: ♆ Hardar (prequel 1) ♆ Triton 2 - O segredo dos deuses (2 livro da série) PS: A série pode começar sendo lida por Hardar ou Triton 1.

An adventurous runaway. A cursed half-blood pirate. A spiteful merman. And a bloodthirsty madman. Marina Storm is a troubled young women who's always dreamed of adventures on the great blue sea. As she imagines what it might be to simply run away from her problems and responsibilities, her home is raided and she finds herself face to face with an old friend she thought she'd long gotten rid of. Except much like herself, he had both changed too much and yet not at all. Eret Soren is still a man with more secrets than she likes without hardly a sense of self-preservation, fearing none of the dangers on sea besides that of his captain. It's this that leads Marina to question his very existence, along with what broke apart their friendship all those years ago, but first she must worry about her own fate. What has a man with a history of never leaving survivors have use of her for? Suddenly these two find themselves surrounded by dangerous and otherworldly creatures, and Marina finds herself offering her help in Eret's mission in exchange for his help to escape. Now the two of them must team up with a wary, reluctant merman and an overeager young lass to retrieve something lost. Secrets, myths, and an ancient prophecy make themselves known to Marina as she learns how little she truly knows about the world around her. Too bad the truth can kill. Cover by Angelblooded03

The ocean was an unforgiving force that took as it pleased and gave little back. Astrid knew that to be a fact. After the tragedy of her mother's death, she watched her father's sanity collapse as he was driven to prove that it was more than just a boating accident. Unlike him, she stayed well away from the water's edge and out of its grasp, immersed in the sorrow of her loss. But what little the ocean did give back, a man of myth with the tail of a fish, could reveal more about the secrets to a harrowing conspiracy brewing below the surface.