Author Dr. Kelly Anderson

About the author:

Dr. Kelly Anderson is a physician with fellowships in emergency medicine and HIV. She completed the Bookends Novel Fellowship, the Gateless Writing Academy, and is a certified Gateless writing teacher.

She led writing courses for over two thousand women inside her award-winning nonprofit, Understory, designed to bring doctors back to themselves and their instincts. She spent fifteen years working in the Inner City Family Health Team at St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto, and built the clinical team at Felix Health.

Kelly spent much of her childhood in British Columbia, and now lives in Guelph, Ontario with her husband and sons.

The Wild Beneath is her first novel.

In The Wild Beneath, Annie MacLeod always knew she was different, growing up on a sailboat in the Pacific Northwest, navigating by stars and swimming with sea creatures alongside her parents and best friend Evan. But when a tsunami shatters her world, Annie is stranded on land and forced to confront how eccentric she is. In the wreckage, she rescues a wordless man named Walker, who emits a hum only she can hear.

Their connection is instant, electric. Walker's touch gives Annie visions of the ocean's hidden world, a life she's never known but feels inexplicably drawn to. Yet even as she is pulled toward him, Evan—the steadfast love who has always been there—remains on dry land, offering the stability she may have to leave behind. Annie is torn between Evan's grounding presence and Walker's magnetic secrets. But then, Walker vanishes—along with the answers she needs about who she really is.

Six years later, Annie has left the sea and buried the past—until Walker's otherworldly sound returns, pulling her back toward the ocean and the life she abandoned. The truth under the water is more ancient than she ever could have known, and Annie must confront a choice that will test her heart and determine her future.

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