Echoes of the Deep: Coral and His Tides

Cang Lan, a seventeen-year-old girl of the Jiaoqi Clan, is the most “useless” being in the deep sea. She has none of her people’s defensive venomous spines, no ability to control the ocean currents, and can only hear the whispers of coral. When her clan turns on itself in a fight for the “Heart of the Sea,” the core that maintains the balance of energy in the deep ocean, she is thrown into the eye of a storm as a sacrifice. There, she accidentally awakens Mo Yuan, the “Sea Guardian” who has slept for ten thousand years.

Mo Yuan is an ancient merman of legend, said to be capable of unleashing apocalyptic tsunamis. His scales are as hard as obsidian, but he awakens without his memories, obsessed only with the coral birthmark on Cang Lan’s wrist. He says, “Your blood has the scent of the Heart of the Sea.”