Oceansong by C.W. Rose is a forbidden mermaid romantasy where love sparks war beneath the waves

In C.W. Rose’s evocative romantasy, Oceansong, the worlds of humans and merfolk collide in a sweeping tale of love, betrayal, and the cost of peace.

Oceansong

An Asian-inspired Romeo & Juliet meets The Little Mermaid, Oceansong follows Angie Song, a young dock worker and aspiring marine biologist in a struggling Alaskan town. When the fish mysteriously vanish from local waters, hunger and fear grip her community. The shocking truth? Merfolk are behind it.

When Angie hesitates to kill a merman during a violent encounter, her act of compassion sparks a fragile alliance with Prince Kaden, an inquisitive, sharp-tongued mer determined to end the bloodshed. Together, they seek to bridge two worlds teetering on the edge of war.

But as hatred brews and forbidden feelings rise, Angie must decide where her loyalties truly lie: with her people, or with the mer she’s come to love. The wrong choice could cost her everything.

Tropes: Forbidden Romance, Enemies to Lovers, Who Did This to You, Dual POV, Reluctant Heroine & Hero

Content Warnings: Violence, Blood, Emotional Abuse (not between main couple), Racism (not between main couple)

Learn more about Oceansong here!

Midnightsong

The fragile truce between humans and merfolk shatters when the Mer-Queen is assassinated, throwing both realms into chaos. Angie and Kaden, once united by love, now find themselves on opposite sides of a conflict that threatens to consume land and sea alike.

When news of the merfolk become widespread in Angie’s Pacific Northwest town, she fights to protect the mer from those who wish them harm. But as vicious seas consume coastal cities and tragedy strikes her town and her family, she’ll need to decide whether to save her family and her people, or her relationship with Kaden and the mer.

Branded a traitor for loving a human, Mer-Prince Kaden must make a choice between letting his family plunge the mer into all-out war, or fighting for the throne to unite his people, but leave Angie behind, as he can never take a human queen.

A cataclysmic war between humans and mer looms, and if Angie and Kaden cannot find a way to bring peace between their people, they’ll find the fragile mer-human truce shattered beyond repair, and the sea-crossed lovers will find themselves separated forever.

Midnightsong will be released on November 11, 2025. Learn more about Midnightsong or request it on NetGalley for a limited time.

Tropes: Forbidden Romance, Undersea Politics, Who Did This to You, Reluctant Hero & Heroine, Dual POV

Content Warnings: Violence, Blood, Depictions of Emotional Abuse (not between main couple, but directed at MMC), Racism (not between main couple, but directed at FMC)