Having spent her life in the tiny coastal town of Bay View, California, Kristella has dealt with the uncomfortable contradiction of being both deathly afraid of the ocean-and constantly drawn to it. One day, succumbing to the pull of the water on her heart, she dives in and swims out to a distant rock, where a shark attacks her, pulling her deeper and deeper into the inky depths. Suddenly, Garrid appears out of nowhere, fending off the shark and quickly whisking Kristella to the surface and back to shore, where he mysteriously heals her leg merely by his touch. But Kristella's extraordinary...