Drowning The Flames: The Phoenix Rising Trilogy, Book 2

🏆2025 Bronze Medalist for 'Best Series' in the Moonbeam Children's Book Awards


A lost key. A rising tide. One fierce girl racing to stop a god.


Vivian Carmine never asked to be a hero — and she definitely didn't mean to make the war between gods and mortals worse. But when Poseidon begins hunting for the powerful relic lost at the bottom of the ocean, Vivian may be the only one who can stop him. If he gets to it first, the seas will rise and the world will flood.


With time running out, Vivian and her closest allies team up with a rogue band of rebel mermaids on a mission spanning the neon-lit streets of Tokyo to the darkest trenches of the ocean. As monsters close in and loyalties shift, she discovers the greatest danger may not be the gods — but the secrets kept by those she trusts.


She refused to be underestimated once. She's not about to start now.


Narrated by award-winning narrator, Erin Chmela. A passionate puppeteer and voice actress, Erin brings every character to life with humor, heart, and the spark of a true storyteller. 


Drowning the Flames, Book Two of the Moonbeam Award–winning 'Best Series' The Phoenix Rising Trilogy, is packed with mythology, underwater adventure, and one fierce phoenix who still isn't done fighting.