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.

Book 3 in the merman's saga

Book 2 (The Merman's Hold) He wanted her, and let her go. She chose the land-but the sea never gave her up. He waits beneath the waves... but something else is hunting her. Aria thought she had escaped the depths. But back on land, the whispers of the ocean won't fade-nor does her connection to the merman who once claimed her. When a stranger uncovers the truth about who she is, Aria is forced to confront a past she barely understands and a future she can't outrun. To save both land and sea, she must embrace who she truly is... Even if it means losing everything she thought she wanted. To save both their worlds, Aria must choose between who she was... And who she's meant to become.

OUT NOW! Available as paperback!!! He saw her before she ever knew him. He wanted her, and so he took her. On a family vacation by the sea, Aria is abducted by Kaelen, a merman obsessed with making her his. Trapped in his underwater world, she must navigate her growing feelings and a desperate desire to escape. But Kaelen's love is possessive, and freedom comes at a price. Will she find a way to escape, or will she remain bound by the merman's hold forever?