The underwater aqua-cities of Nautica have been a strong nation separate from the land for over a hundred years, but new religion becomes prominent in the pacific colonies, and civil war erupts as its leaders demand separation from the colonies they deem tainted by the influence of the land. The conflict brings together two lovers from opposite sides of the ocean.

Xara is an oppressed housewife, blinded by the cold deposition of codependence created by both her religion and her duty to her hu ... more »

The underwater aqua-cities of Nautica have been a strong nation separate from the land for over a hundred years, but new religion becomes prominent in the pacific colonies, and civil war erupts as its leaders demand separation from the colonies they deem tainted by the influence of the land. The conflict brings together two lovers from opposite sides of the ocean.

Xara is an oppressed housewife, blinded by the cold deposition of codependence created by both her religion and her duty to her husband. Mark Muldoon is a brash and rebellious womanizer of a Naval officer for the Atlantican Union trying to preserve the unity of the Nautican world wide nation. When battle brings him to her doorstep, she saves his life, only to find that in doing so a love blossoms that challenges everything she ever grew up believing. Xara finds she must make a choice between summoning  the courage to fight for this love under threat of excommunication and shame, or obeying the tenants of her religion and remain faithful to her promise of marriage. No matter what she chooses, in the end it will affect the fate of the entire undersea world. For neither she or mark can stem the flow of change coming on the tides of Pacifica.  Less