Mara has always felt the pull of the deep—an impossible warmth beneath her ribs she can’t explain. When a surge of power erupts inside her, she learns the truth she was never meant to uncover. The deep didn’t choose her. It created her. Now ancient shadows are waking, and the drowned ones are rising to reclaim what they made. With Elias as her only anchor, Mara must confront the force that binds her to the water… and the darkness that refuses to let her go. The Drowned Ones: Made by the Deep is a gothic blend of horror, myth, and forbidden romance—where destiny is written in water and the past never stays buried.