Breakwater

Seventeen-year-old Jade is the child of one of the mer-king's closest counselors, so her life already comes with heavy obligations. Her engagement is one of them, but when her fiancé kills a naiad, the underwater city of Thessalonike erupts in outrage and the strained relationship between the mer and the naiads grows sharper.

Jade soon realizes that her own decisions carry consequences far beyond what she intended. Thessalonike is a city that thrives on gossip and scandal, and as she tries to hold back the resentment spreading through its streets, she finds peril in every one of its waterways. The danger reaches her family and threatens the uneasy calm that has kept the ocean together.

The novel asks whether the city's rifts can be healed before rage and hatred destroy everything Jade cares about.