On Lily Sanderson’s eighteenth birthday she’ll become just a girl — still a mer girl, true, but signing the renunciation paperwork will ink
Princess Waterlily of Thalassinia out of existence. That leaves plain
old Lily living on land, dating the boy she loves, and trying to master
this being human thing once and for all.
Now that Lily and Quince
are together, mer-bond or not, she’s almost content to give up her place in the royal succession of Thalassinia. But just when she thinks she
has everything figured out, Lily’s father sends a certain
whirlpool-stirring cousin to stay with her on land. What did Doe do to
get herself exiled from Thalassinia and stuck in terraped form, when
everyone knows how much she hates humans? And why why why is she batting her eyelashes at Lily’s former crush, Brody?
The seafoam on the
surf comes when a merboy from Lily’s past shows up. Tellin asks Lily for something that clouds her view of the horizon. There’s a future with
Quince on land, her loyalty to the kingdom in the sea, and Lily tossing
on the waves in the middle. Will she find a way to reconcile her love,
her duty, and her dreams?
