Whispers of the Deep

Mira is an engineer in Beta, an underwater city, and her job is to keep its systems running. She wants to see the city thrive. During a solo repair job in an abandoned section, she comes across an undine, a merman from an ancient civilization that has been forgotten by most.

The merman is Arges, a warrior who has spent his whole life defending his people. He commands deadly creatures and has settled on a plan to wipe Beta out, so that the undine can keep their peaceful way of life. Then Mira saves him. She has no idea what she has done, but it ties the two of them together in a way he cannot dismiss.

Generations ago the surface became uninhabitable, and humans were forced into enclosures beneath the sea. The undine call these humans achromos, and they have resented them for centuries as the people who displaced them. Both sides are moving toward war.

This is a fantasy romance with a science fiction setting, built on an enemies-to-allies tension between two peoples. Mira and Arges must decide whether what binds them can hold as the divide between their kinds grows wider. It is the first book in the Deep Waters series.