The sea is rising?and its secrets refuse to stay buried.

Jesse
The sea witch is gone, but her lies still poison everything she touched.
With my mother at my side, I dive into the Trench?the place every merman fears. What we find there changes everything: an entire society that's survived in the dark, the forgotten and forsaken, the ones the mermen cast aside centuries ago.

They've built their own world in the shadows, and they're done being ignored. Some call them hope. Others call them danger.

I just know they're the truth we've all been avoiding.

Merrick
While Jesse searches the depths, I'm trying to hold what's left of our people together. The clans are fracturing?some want war, others want to forget. Every choice I make risks tearing us apart, and every whisper from the Trench brings more questions than answers.

If what Jesse found down there is real, it could save us... or destroy us.
And when the tide finally turns, I'll have to decide whether to stand with the world I was born to?or the one she's found.

Because peace has a price, and the ocean never forgets its debts.