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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.

Locklyn Adair thought that finding the Sea Enchantress would lift her family’s curse. But the ramifications of her desire for a tail reach further than she could ever have dreamed. Now the entire Undersea Realm is in peril, as Circe, armed with the locket capable of controlling the Loch Ness monster, journeys to the North Sea in pursuit of revenge.

Emma, half human and half Syrena, and her Syrena love, Galen, need time together - alone. Away from the kingdoms of Poseidon and Triton. Emma's grandfather, the Poseidon king, suggests the two visit a small town called Neptune. Neptune is home to both Syrena and Half-Breeds alike. But Emma and Galen didn't sign up to be peacemakers between the ocean and the land-dwelling, freshwater Syrena. They didn't bargain for meeting a charming Half-Breed named Reed, who can barely disguise his feelings for Emma.

What magical beings inhabit Earth’s waters? Some are as almost-familiar as the mer-people; some as strange as the thing glimpsed only as a golden eye in a pool at the edge of the Great Desert Kalarsham, where the mad god Geljdreth rules; or the unknowable, immense Kraken, dark beyond the darkness of the deepest ocean, who will one day rise and rule the world. Here are seven tales from the remarkable storytellers Robin McKinley and Peter Dickinson. Vividly imagined and written, they transform the simple element of water into something very powerful indeed.