Beneath the Blue

Seventeen-year-old Melanie Akamu lives for the ocean. It's the one place where nothing can touch her—not the fear, not the future, not the illness she's spent years trying to outrun.
Then she meets Chase.
He's new to the island, a little guarded, a little reckless, and completely unexpected. What begins as a spark on the beach quickly turns into something neither of them can ignore—something real, something worth holding onto.
But just as life starts to feel bigger than her fears, everything c...