When the Captain of a World War II submarine is fished out of the Bermuda triangle in the year 2025 halting the testing of the planet's most destructive weaponry to date, Cosmic Energy, the President of the Federated States of America is called in. To complicate the situation the Sub Captain, Captain Corbin, was reported as missing in action during World War II along with his sub and crew. Further investigations show that Corbin was found to have transformed his DNA into that of an amphibian! When Corbin is ordered to explain, he begins telling his story, a story of love, adventure, and tragedy, a story that in the telling of it heals something deep within him.

Corbin recounts the events surrounding World War II and how he pulled out of Pearl Harbor a few days before it was bombed. He tells how his sub sank off of the Marshall Islands and plummeted into an underwater Cavern leading them to an ancient underwater world of MerPeople called MerWorld. This was a world once filled with the wisdom of MerWomen who moved in harmony with the currents of Mother Ocean and worshiped the Great Whale Mother. The Whale Women processed many intuitive powers and had at one time ruled the seas but dissension within caused them to be exiled to the Abyss by the members of the Shark Quam, a tribe, of the MerWarriors who worshiped the Great White Shark God. This brotherhood forbade any MerWoman to practice her intuitive arts and forbad the teachings of the Sacred Whale Mother. They intimidated the other Quams, of the dolphin, and the turtle into leaving behind their playful and studious ways and ruled with brute force.

Corbin arrives at the moment Serena, Queen of MerWorld is about to be mated with Jaween the chief MerWarrior. Corbin is immediately embraced by the MerPeople as their Kilahara, or the chosen one for whom they have been waiting, and Serena has been praying. Corbin and Serena fall deeply in love despite their vast differences. As Serena’s love grows so do her psyche abilities. At last she discovers that her mother ,whom she thought dead, is a spiritual leader among the whale women and lives in the Abyss. When her mother summons her for her whale woman initiation and training, Serena at last learns the secrets of the deep, how to move in harmony with Mother Ocean and her own life current. She embarks on her spirit quest to the sacred city of bubbles where she meets the last of the Great Ocean Keepers Shaman a blue whale.

Corbin tells of his attempts to save this beautiful culture from the ever-encroaching Lander world. He tells of the MerPeople championing him as the Kilahara, the one who would save them and their Queen from the outer and inner forces that sought to destroy them. Captain Corbin's fate is sealed when he passes the initiation of the Brotherhood of the Shark and kills a great white. But when Serena returns from her sacred journey she finds her people dying from a strange sickness. She and Corbin try to save the MerPeople but learn they are dying from radiation sickness from the atomic bombs being detonated in their home waters. Corbin and Serena decide to go to Washington to meet with the President to urge him to stop the atomic bomb testing but they are sabotaged by Corbin’s bitter son and father-in-law who follow Corbin and Serena back to MerWorld to annihilate the MerPeople. Corbin finds himself caught up in the mass exodus of the MerPeople as they flee for their lives from MerWorld, into the Abyss, through the Portal of Time returning to their Home world in another Universe. But Corbin and Serena are left in the wake and Corbin does not make it. He finds himself saved and transformed by Serena's Kiss of Life but alone, ironically in the future trying to convince yet another President and the military once again to stop their destructive weaponry or they will surely destroy themselves.