Fingerprints In The Water

The ocean is not silent. It is calling. When plastic begins washing ashore on the beaches of Cape Breton, fifteen-year-old Kai Chen sees what most people have learned to ignore: bottles, bags, fishing line, cigarette butts, and fragments of waste scattered across the shore. Everyone knows the ocean is polluted. Everyone knows something should be done. But the damage reaches far beyond what can be collected from the sand. Microplastics drift through the currents. Ghost gear traps marine life. Toxic waste sinks where no one is meant to look. Across the world's waters, the fingerprints of human carelessness are spreading, and the ancient dragons can feel every wound. Kai has always felt like an outsider in his small fishing town, caught between the life his family built from the sea and the future he hopes to find somewhere else. But when a strange shard of shell awakens a bond with Uranus, the ancient dragon of the ocean, Kai is pulled into a truth far larger than himself. The sea is hurting, and it has chosen him to listen. As Uranus searches the world's oceans and discovers the scale of humanity's damage, Kai is drawn into the growing network of dragon-bonded youth known as the Young Dragons. Together with Jacob, Hannah, Anne, Kyle, Amy, and others, he must help turn grief into action before the ocean's sickness becomes impossible to deny. Blending dragon mythology, ocean ecology, youth activism, and ecological urgency, Fingerprints In The Water is a young adult fantasy adventure about belonging, responsibility, and the courage to answer when the living world calls for help. The third book in the Draconim series, Fingerprints In The Water continues the story of young people, ancient dragons, and a planet still worth saving.