A Pisces In The Rain

Marin Webber has spent her whole life avoiding the ocean—because the ocean doesn’t feel like scenery. It feels like memory. Saltwater makes her skin burn. The deep haunts her sleep. And the closer she gets to the shoreline, the more the water seems to… notice her.

Xela Michaels is nine years old, brilliant, physically disabled, and absolutely done being underestimated. She wants one thing: to win the swim meet and prove she’s more than what people see. When Marin becomes her coach, Xela starts spotting patterns no adult is willing to name—fish that gather when Marin is near, currents that move against the wind, and a strange necklace key that never leaves Marin’s throat.

Offshore, a private research facility begins firing controlled seismic pulses into the Atlantic shelf.

A tremor hits.

Xela goes under.

Something saves her.

And when Marin inherits the Webber offshore grid—fault lines, leases, and hidden infrastructure included—she discovers her “family legacy” isn’t money.

It’s a map.

Now the footage is disappearing. The tests are escalating. The deep is responding. And the people digging into Marin’s ocean don’t want permission.

They want her.

A PISCES IN THE RAIN is the first book in the TALES OF A MERMAID trilogy—an oceanic supernatural thriller about identity, obsession, and what wakes when the deep is pushed too hard.

Next: QUEST FOR THE LOST CITY
Final: THE PRINCESS RETURNS