Deep Trouble

For fans of Ilona Andrews and Sarah J. Maas, a modern mermaid story with teeth.

Real-life mermaids don’t live in a fairy tale. They are terrified young women, scared to death of being found out. They learn from harsh experiences that people who are different get treated like prey. To survive, mermaids have to grow up tough or die.

Bobbi Watson has spent years hiding the most dangerous secret imaginable: she’s a mermaid. So are her two best friends, Chloe and Ruby. Living in Brisbane, they’ve built careful human lives, a chain of pubs, a pop music career, a university research position, while guarding a truth that could destroy them all.

Sometimes, even when you lay low, trouble comes looking.

Chloe battles a monstrous water creature and caught on camera, and their world shatters overnight.

The Australian Navy comes knocking, but not to arrest them, they want to recruit them. Something is attacking warships off the eastern coast, killing sailors and sinking vessels. The military is desperate, and three mermaids with extraordinary powers may be their only hope.

When Bobbi discovers that mermaids exist across the globe, isolated, terrified, and alone, she hatches a plan far bigger than naval patrol duty. She’ll build a sanctuary on their secret island and call every mermaid home. It’s audacious, expensive, and exactly the kind of thing that makes governments nervous.

Then the attacks escalate, and Bobbi realizes the enemy isn’t just some faceless creature from the deep. It’s someone whose darkness may be impossible to stop, even for the most powerful mermaids alive.

Set against Australia’s stunning coastline, Deep Trouble is a story of fierce friendship, impossible choices, and the terrifying cost of coming out of hiding.