Complete. Book one in the Water Trilogy. Audrey Pitkus moved from Northern Michigan to sunny Florida after an accident that had caused her to fear the thing she had once loved most- water. Her family tried to make a new life away from the haunting memories of their old home but Audrey finds she can not forget so easily. Trying to fit in at a new school, and trusting people after a girl had tried to drown her in a swimming pool, proved to be a challenging task. All Audrey wanted in life was to go back to before she was nearly murdered. Little does she know that going back to her old life becomes impossible when sitting out on the dock she sees a tail of something other than a fish.

Kennedy (Kenna) isn't known for her beauty. She's never been complimented on her appearance unless being called beautiful by your family counts, and to Kenna- it doesn't. Sick of being ignored because of her looks, Kennedy gives herself a makeover but it isn't very successful. After encountering a crying Marissa Rivers on the behalf of her obnoxious brother, Noah, she becomes acquaintances with the girl. After a chat about Kenna's failed efforts at makeup and how she's a nondrinker, she offers Kenna the help of her and her friends. Kenna graciously agrees but there's a catch. Kenna will have to be the girls' designated driver to the next few parties that they want to attend until she can do her own makeup which may take a while but what happens when Kenna accidentally gets drunk at one of the parties and Noah has to bring her and the other girls back to their home? She gets involved in a lot more than she planned. And it seems as if all she wanted was to become beautiful.

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.

first book in the Paperweight series. - ❝He thinks that if all that is wild and beautiful in the world wound up in one person, it would be her.❞

Rye has lived at the Institute her entire life. Watched over by Sentries and loyal to a man who calls himself Dr. X she has dedicated her entire young life to training to be the perfect spy. Cunning, clever and lethal as an Experiment to Dr. X, she (along with other girls at the Institute) are sought to rebuild the New World after coming close to another World War breakout. Safe behind the Institute's walls, Rye trains till no end so she can fulfill her duty and become a lone agent. But when an intruder has been captured and she is sent to find our who this person is and how they found the remote building, she discovers darker secrets to what the Institute is hiding, and the where her loyalties lie is finally questioned...

the road trip of a lifetime. [ cover by blissom / trailer by blissom ] [ started march 30th, 2013 - ended february 18, 2015 © paulina r. all rights reserved ]