Beneath the Waves

Kai Merlin has grown up knowing she will inherit her mother's responsibilities, including the duty to protect secrets her people have kept for generations. Vivien Palmer's family has planned a different future for her in the business she is expected to share with her brother Franklin. Vivien's own curiosity leads toward the ocean and the unexplained shells they wear. A meeting in childhood linked Kai and Vivien long before they understood what adulthood would ask of them. Their growing desire for a life together now conflicts with obligations neither can simply disregard. Finding a way forward means investigating what lies beneath the expectations their families have presented as inevitable.