Below the Current (Fated Stars #1)

Dive into a new series from bestselling author Candice Gilmer — forbidden love, ancient prophecy, and slow-burn tension set against a sci-fi world with romantasy-level depth that will leave you desperate for more.

Coreni Mekkans is a journalist. She knows how to find secrets, survive them, and get out clean.

She’s done it her whole life — including the secret she’s carried since birth: that her body refuses cybernetic implants, and she’s never known why.

One cold night on a loading dock, a Fraluma warrior who should have killed her decides not to.

That decision pulls her into the center of a century-old prophecy she doesn’t believe in, including a hidden civilization beneath the ocean, and a truth about her own blood that will change everything.

She never expected the story to be about her.