A crown she never wanted. A darkness she wasn't prepared to fight. A love that could cost her everything.
Clara was never the "strong" sister. While her eldest sister, Cleo, trained in the art of war, Clara spent her days singing to seagrass and playing with shells. But the Pearl of the Ocean doesn't care for training, it cares for destiny. Chosen as the next Queen of Aquaria, Clara is thrust into a position of power she is terrified to hold, especially as an ancient, shadowy evil begins to stir in the deepest trenches of the sea.
When a sudden, brutal attack traps her royal family in a prison of blackened ice, Clara is cast out of her kingdom and transported to the human world. She washes ashore with no memory of her royal past, only the lingering, unshakable feeling that she belongs to the water.
In the world of legs and sunlight, she meets a man who sees her not as a miracle or a Queen, but as a girl worth protecting. As she falls for him, her memories begin to resurface, along with the realization that the "evil of the ocean" is still searching for her.
Now, Clara must make a choice that will break her heart, stay in the human world with the man she loves, or return to the depths to save a family that is running out of time. But even if she returns, she faces a final, impossible battle, not just against a dark spirit, but against a father who would rather see her alone than in the arms of a human.