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.

[Realm of Aetheria/book 1] [Can be read as stand-alone] Being a wolf with magic had labeled her as an outcast and had her and her grandmother a target of mistreatment from her pack, for years. After her grandmother's brutal death, she only became more miserable. But when her mate, the Alpha's son, finds her, her life turns even more hellish. Rejected and banished from her pack she is left to pick up her heart's pieces. Now three years later, a great threat is arising and putting everyone in the realm of Aetheria in danger. What happens when her mate who is now the Alpha appears on her doorstep unknowingly, bringing some of those who hurt her so badly with himself? Accepting to help them because of her tender soul she wasn't ready for her mate to suddenly try to claim her back. Will she let him? Will the past wounds heal? Will they be able to defeat the evil together? Read to find out ...