"I was dying, that I knew for sure. I looked around slowly, and decided to watch my hair flow slowly around in the dark blue sea water, my eyes grew heavey and a ifelt myself hit the sandy bottom, peace at last." 18 year old Derik Grey lives alone at his seaside apartment, loving his job as a waiter at the Salty Urchin he thinks he has it made, that is until his soon to be step brother shows up and tries to drown him in the ocean for being gay. just as he is about to accept death he is rescued by Hayle, a 19 year old merman that just happened to be swimming by. soon the two realize that there may be more to their fateful meeting. all rights to the photo belong to its owner, i just edited it folks. enjoy!!

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.