Growing up in the inner-city ghetto of South Philly, eighteen-year-old River Matthews always felt different. It's not just her biracial heritage that makes her stand out. In a neighborhood where most of the girls are too concerned with getting their hair wet, River's love of the ocean makes her an enigma. On a rainy night where she is saved by a handsome, albeit strange stranger, River finally learns the truth of her missing heritage. Whisked away to the underwater world of Arcaccia, she finds the father she always wondered about, a brother she didn't know existed, a love she wasn't looking for, and a world she would do anything to save Join this inner-city girl as she as goes on an adventure of a lifetime and finds love, and the family she didn't know she was missing.