Awakened in the Deep

He's the most dangerous thing in the ocean, and she's already fallen knee-deep for him.

The first time Valentina Rodriguez met Cayo Mares, she slapped him across the face, and she’s not sorry about it.

What she is sorry about is showing up at his dive charter the next morning, desperate for reef access she can’t get anywhere else, only to discover that the man she assaulted in a Key Largo bar is the same creature she watched dissolve into moonlit water the night before. He’s a lionfish shifter, and completely unbothered by the fact that she knows.

Cayo is nothing like what she expected. He’s spent decades alone, exiled, convinced that what he is makes him a problem. But Valentina Rodriguez is the first person who’s ever looked at him like he’s something worth understanding.

Now something wants her gone. And there is nothing more lethal than a lionfish with someone to protect.