Water Helix

Ninety-seven years ago, the world flooded. Every continent, every city, all swallowed by the sea. Almost everyone and everything died, and those who survived, well...the Deviant happened.

As the eighth daughter of the Seadragons, Primrose (Rosie) Fields is destined to be a nobody. With barely the ability to breathe underwater and no deviant whatsoever to change her legs into fins and make her skin impenetrable to the deep, she's useless, pointless, and will almost certainly die.

But then the letter arrives. The summons for everyone between the ages of twenty and thirty to enter the succession selection to end the War of the Oceans. This new water world needs a king and queen to stop the pillaging, plundering, and bloodshed, and the trials to find a new ruler are rumoured to be just as vicious.

Everyone knows Rosie won't survive past the first day, but that's before she meets him.

Lusca Stormcast takes one look at her and hates her.
He saves her life, all while wanting to kill her.
But when disaster strikes and he has to make a choice, he learns the horrible truth.
He's the first to feel the Soul Helix.
The first to trigger the genetic mutation where his life is now inexplicably linked to hers.
Pity she doesn't feel it.
Pity she doesn't know.
Because Rosie Fields is the fated mate of a monster and death is the least of her problems.
Lus