Beneath a sea that remembers every sorrow, a mermaid dares to love a man destined to break her heart.
Neritha, youngest daughter of the deep, saves a drowning sailor and discovers a world above filled with light, pain, and impossible longing. In choosing him, she forfeits her voice and her peace, only to learn that love on land is far savage than the storms she once calmed.
When betrayal shatters the fragile life she built, the sea claims her again, but not as the creature she was. From her grief rises the first Sea Witch, a being of moonlight and vengeance whose heart governs the tides themselves.

Author R. L. White re-imagines Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid through her own long-held theory: that the so-called villain of the tale was never evil at all, but the broken girl who became something greater. This is the untold story of the Sea Witch, the one who loved too fiercely, lost too deeply, and became legend itself.