The One-Hundred

Each baby born beneath the waves is killed--with one exception: the one hundred thousandth is spared.

There's one rule shared between the island's tribes: don't touch the water. When Cressa-la breaks this law, her world, and body, changes. Sure, change is normal... but when has growing scales ever been normal?

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Watty Award Winner 2015: Best Use of Visuals

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Each baby born beneath the waves is killed--with one exception: the one hundred thousandth is spared.

Among the spared, magic chooses a rare few, connecting them to the moon or sea. These are the One-Hundreds, mermaids and humans with the power to save the world-or corrupt it.

When Cressa-la breaks the first rule of her tribe and touches the water surrounding her island, everything she knows turns on its head. Talking, sinister dolphins, mind control, and a whole world just under the waves await her on her eigteenth birthday... but she never asked for any of this. All she wanted was to become a Tribe Leader and take care of her village.

It's amazing how one screw-up can change everything.

A relentless darkness reaches for her, wanting her affections for his own twisted purposes. In opposition stands a fractured light, haunted by a painful past where corruption eroded friendship.

Unless Cressa-la can bring the darkness to his knees and fight the war raging inside, the world is doomed.

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Content warning: This story contains themes of depression and violence.