Island Beneath the Sea (Spanish: La Isla Bajo el Mar) is a 2009 novel by Chilean author Isabel Allende.

The story opens on the island of Saint-Domingue (current day Haiti) in the late 18th century.

Zarité (known as Tété) is the daughter of an African mother she never knew and one of the white sailors who brought her into bondage.

As a young girl Tété is purchased by Violette, a mixed race courtesan, on behalf of Toulouse Valmorain, a Frenchman who has inherited his father's sugar plantation.

Valmorain has dreams of financial success and is morally unopposed to slavery, though he dislikes punishing slaves himself, instead instructing his cruel overseer, Cambray, to administer the violence.