Deep Breath

Before disappearing at sea, Marissa Pruitt s father a once revered marine archaeologist walked the line of insanity, claiming to have seen a mermaid during an ordinary dive in the Gulf of Mexico. He abandoned his life and career, completely obsessed with chasing the truth. It s been years since his death, and Marissa is still tormented by countless unanswered questions. When she finds dive coordinates and a stone pendant hidden in her father s things, she asks for help from his old prot g and sets out to give her father one last goodbye and maybe find closure for her troubled heart. Instead, she finds the truth he d been searching for all along, with a life and love she never could have imagined. But there s a price to see it all, one set by betrayal and paid with an anchor at her feet and salt water in her lungs.