From the Waters is a series of romance stories about a species on a different planet who are born out of the water where the sentient trees who created them live. The trees have a symbiotic relationship with the species and in order to keep them sweet encourage them to form connections and get together.

No one knows where the original mother aetri, Aeternia, came from and no one's particularly interested in finding out.

The series consists of roots (large main novels, usually three or four couples involved), ribbons (novella-ish, one couple) and branches (somewhere between roots and ribbons, more than one couple but with a focus of some kind, for example being centred around a specific family).