Bound by the Tide

Bound by a blood feud as hunter and prey, a captive mermaid enduring torn scales and pierced flesh collides with her scarred human keeper amid Lovecraftian deep-sea horrors born from oil pollution. As a twenty-year-old sacrificial secret and a patriarchal capitalist conspiracy surface, these two shattered souls transform through shared agony—one sprouting gills and scales, the other learning human speech—forging an unbreakable symbiotic bond and a patricidal alliance to destroy the evil that ma