My Merman Husband Is a Deep-Sea Tyrant

A human girl who has been crippled finds herself bound in marriage to a merman who treats her with cruelty and no gratitude. She then makes a trade, exchanging him for a timid sea creature branded as a Defective, and the arrangement shifts the balance of her life beneath the waves. The tension between her new circumstances and the lingering shadow of her former husband drives the story forward in this high fantasy tale of the deep sea.