She drowned once. The ocean decided that wasn’t enough.
Betrayed and murdered by the man she loved, Amberlyn is dragged into the crushing dark by a monstrous merman prince with glowing eyes, razor fangs, and a mutant body no human woman was ever meant to take.
Finnegan is the last royal of a dying undersea kingdom. Five hundred years of poison have twisted the Mer males into something savage, ridged, massive, and desperate for a fertile mate.
He saves her life. He claims her before thousands in a public ceremony. He crowns her queen in blood and molten light.
Now the drowned human carries the hybrid heir that might save his species, wears her killer’s ring on a necklace of shark's teeth, and rules a ruthless mutant court that kneels only because it fears what she has become.
A dark, enemies-to-lovers mermaid romance • possessive mutant merman prince • forced proximity in the deep sea • revenge and public royal claiming • size-difference intensity • a drowned woman’s rise to power
The Pacific lied when it said it didn’t care. Turns out it only needed the right monster to make it beg.