Underwaterkingdoms Stories

Four mermaids from four different kingdoms have one thing in common: they don't belong. After being cast aside by their own people, Nia, Zuri, Kavya, and Solana find themselves on Florida's coast, where they open a small marine rescue center and try to build a new life together. Between caring for injured sea creatures, keeping their mermaid identities secret, and learning to live under the same roof, the four unlikely friends finally begin to feel at home. But when strange events start disturbing the ocean-sick animals, disappearing fish, and mysterious currents-the girls discover that something ancient is stirring beneath the waves. As the mystery deepens, these four outcasts may be the only ones capable of saving the sea they love. A story of friendship, found family, and the courage to forge your own path, Tidebound follows four mermaids who learn that sometimes the people who don't fit in are exactly the ones the world needs most.

Two loves changed the course of history-and then stepped aside. Decades later, the world they shaped is beginning to strain. Sela, raised far from the sea yet never free of its pull, has lived her life listening-to currents, to silences, to the spaces her family never spoke about. Eryx, heir to laws forged in survival, understands the sea not as wonder, but as responsibility-something dangerous if left unmanaged. When fractured underwater kingdoms begin to fail, their descendants are drawn toward the truth their grandparents paid for: separation was necessary, love was temporary, and legacy was never meant to be resolved by one generation alone. Reunion is possible. So is refusal. But if the sea is to open again, it will demand more than blood. A Tidelines Story: Confluence is a legacy novel about recognition over romance, repair without erasure, and the cost of choosing belonging when history refuses to be undone. They weren't wrong. They were early. Setting: California (Sela), Florida (Eryx) Era: 1919, 1922, & 1967