The Deep Within Novel (m/f, het)

Connor Ramsey

Connor is the heir to the Ramsey fortune and to the Marsh madness.  Or that is what he fears.  When Connor was a child, his mother attempted to drown them both.  She claimed that they were members of an underwater race, that they would breathe easily in the ocean's depths, that Connor was a prince.  A prince that could call forth the dread god Cthulu from beneath the waves and destroy humanity. Connor's father stops his mother's mad plans at the cost of her life.  He remarries a beautiful woman named Lily.  Connor is instantly smitten with the stepmother who loves him like his mother never did or could.

His father dies and he has a chance to be with Lily, only he is suffering from terrible dreams of drowning, but not dying.  Then his dreams change to include a tentacled thing dragging him to the bottom of the ocean.  Only this time when he wakes, the dream seems to follow him.

Lily Ramsey

Lily has cared for her jaded yet fragile stepson since she entered his life.  Her marriage to Richard, Connor's father, becomes to seem more like a gilded cage than the loving relationship she desperately wanted.  She put all her love into her stepson, only that love turns from that of a mother to that of a lover.  Though she tries to stop these feelings, they only grow.  Then Richard dies and her stepson seems to need her more than ever.  Will the mother or lover win out?

Caroline Ramsey nee Marsh

Caroline is Connor's mother.  At one point, she was a vivacious, beautiful, intelligent woman, but suddenly she became obsessed and strange.  She began to hear voices from the sea, calling her to come down the depths where she and her son belonged.  Her family is known in the town of Arkham for its worship of Cthulu.  Has she rediscovered her roots?  Is he mad or really hearing the voice of a god?  Whichever it is, the end result is that she tries to kill herself and her son.