Marina, a water-breather, has spent her seventeen years obeying the commands of her adoptive mother and empress of the sea, Cordelia.
Beck, a teen with a devastating past, awakens in the s.
With powers other merfolk don\'t possess, Marina erases the young man\'s memory of the incident and leaves him to wake on a South Carolina beach.
She makes a quick decision to protect a human, a forbidden act below the Surface.
One night when Marina is making a Soul collection for the empress, trouble arises.
Marina, a water-breather, has spent her seventeen years obeying the commands of her adoptive mother and empress of the sea, Cordelia