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Sanna is a mermaid - but she is only half seavish. The night of her birth, a sea-witch cast a spell that made Sanna’s people, including her landish mother, forget how and where she was born. Now Sanna is sixteen and an outsider in the seavish matriarchy, and she is determined to find her mother and learn who she is. She apprentices herself to the witch to learn the magic of making and unmaking, and with a new pair of legs and a quest to complete for her teacher, she follows a clue that leads her ashore on the Thirty-Seven Dark Islands.

Lena has lived her whole life near the beach, walking for miles up and down the shore and breathing the salty air, swimming in the cold water, and watching the surfers rule the waves. The problem is, she's spent her whole life just watching. As her 16th birthday approaches, Lena vows she will no longer watch from the sand: she will learn to surf. But her father, a former surfer himself, refuses to allow her to take lessons. After a near drowning in his past, he can't bear to let Lena take up the risky sport. Yet something lures Lena to the water - an ancient, powerful magic.

Click. Sukie Jamieson takes a selfie after her tennis lesson. Click. She takes one before she has to give a presentation in class. Click. She takes one to be sure there's nothing in her teeth after eating pizza at Clementi's. And if she can't take a selfie, she checks her reflection in windows...

Seven years after the birth of their son, Cordelia and Wade face a depthless evil hell-bent on abducting the children of Atlantis. Ghost pirates arrive on the island intent on using the innocence of Atlantean children to power their ship of cobwebs and dust. Cordelia's worst fear has come true, the very thing she's spent years attempting to prevent. Struggling with anxiety and guilt, and lashing out at anyone who offers help, Cordelia battles her malfunctioning powers as she searches for a way to bring her son home.

Aboard the pirate ship Dove, Flora the girl takes on the identity of Florian the man to earn the respect and protection of the crew. For Flora, former starving urchin, the brutal life of a pirate is about survival: don't trust, don't stick out, and don't feel. But on this voyage, Flora is drawn to the Lady Evelyn Hasegawa, who is headed to an arranged marriage she dreads. Flora doesn't expect to be taken under Evelyn's wing, and Evelyn doesn't expect to find such a deep bond with the pirate Florian. Neither expects to fall in love.

When one of their closest mermaid friends is imprisoned in a science lab, Cordelia and Wade insist on taking up the quest to find the lost island of Atlantis, a sanctuary for all water species. But the island is guarded by the dragon kings, an ancient and formidable race who are determined to keep it for themselves. Cordelia and friends must travel to distant pockets of the earth to collect the magical jewels that open the portal to Atlantis. But no one remembers how the jewels work, instructions are non-existent, and tensions are rife as Wade’s ex-girlfriend appears on the scene.

A Vietnamese mermaid caught between two worlds. A siren who falls for Poseidon’s son. A boy secretly pining for the merboy who saved him years ago. A storm that brings humans and mermaids together. Generations of family secrets and pain. Find all these and more in this gripping new collection that will reel you in from the very first word! Welcome to an ocean of hurt, fear, confusion, rage, hope, humor, discovery, and love in its many forms.

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Auf der Insel Eriana Kwai sind Meerjungfrauen der Feind. Sie belagern die Küste und bringen Tod und Verzweiflung über die Inselbewohner. Jedes Jahr ziehen Krieger in ein blutiges Massaker, doch keiner kehrt zurück. Nun sollen Kriegerinnen ihr Glück versuchen–immun gegen die tödlichen Verlockungen des Meeres. Die achtzehnjährige Meela hat ihren Bruder bereits an das Massaker verloren und ist eine der Kriegerinnen. Von Rachedurst getrieben, stellt sie sich dem Kampf, doch sie hütet ein gefährliches Geheimnis: Als Kind war sie mit einer Meerjungfrau befreundet.

Turtle is scavenging a drowned town when she saves a stranger’s life. There’s something special about Kai—an attraction she’s never felt before. She would do anything to see him again. But Turtle can never truly be with Kai, because Kai is Normal, and Turtle is one of the Mer, kids whose genes were illegally hacked before birth and who now have working gills as well as lungs. Turtle lives on an old cruise ship with the other Mer in order to be close to the water she needs to survive.

“The Little Mermaid” takes a twisted turn in this thrilling sequel to villainess origin story Sea Witch, as the forces of land and sea clash in an epic battle for freedom, redemption, and true love. Runa will not let her little sister die. Alia traded her voice to the Sea Witch for a shot at...

Sie besaß einen Schild vor der Welt: Solange sie schmerz empfand, existierte sie. Als Nûri aus der Verbannung zurückkehrt, erkennt sie ihre Heimat nicht wieder: Ewige Nacht hat sich auf ihr Land gelegt, das Reich Untermeer ist kahl und tot. Zwischen den Trümmern der Festung gräbt sie in Erinnerungen und legt Stück für Stück ihre eigene Vergangenheit frei. Auf der Suche nach Wahrheit schwimmt Nûri durch die Meerwüste und weckt eine göttliche Macht, die das Merfolk wieder einen soll - doch der Zorn ihrer Schwester Grím brodelt so finster wie die Schlote um Bránborg, die uralte Hexenfeste.