The ocean is gone. Every drop, vanished in a single night twenty years ago, leaving behind a massive frontier of exposed seabed, ancient ruins, and creatures that were never meant to breathe air.

Humanity did what it does best. It adapted. Pearl harvesters rake the shallows for crystallized magic. Salvage crews plunder the drowned cities of the Mer. The desperate and the brave descend daily to the ocean floor, chasing fortunes in a landscape that wants them dead.

But something is wrong with the world Below. There are pools of water that shouldn't still be liquid, coral growing in open air, and things in the deepest trenches that are starting to move. The Abyssal Gates are counting down to something. The changed ones in the Dead Water pools are singing warnings. And across the empty seabed, a single message is becoming impossible to ignore.

The ocean didn't leave. It's just underneath. Waiting.

Dead Water Tales is a collection of dark fantasy stories set in a world where the greatest mystery isn't where the ocean went, but what's going to happen when it comes back.

Perfect for readers who like their fantasy brutal, their worlds unforgiving, and their mysteries better left buried.