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NEW YORK CITY, 2000 Twins Trey and Tai are not like other high schoolers. Trey struggles to suppress his surging magical abilities, which continually impede his dream of making first chair cello in orchestra. A budding photographer, Tai just wants to take pictures and maybe find someone to take them with. But disturbing images keep appearing in Tai’s camera lens, reigniting the twins’ search for their mother, who mysteriously disappeared ten years earlier.

Lorsque le prince Siegfried s'aventure en forêt ce soir-là, pour oublier les injonctions au mariage qui le pressent et le poids du royaume qui l'incombe, il s'attendait à tout sauf à croiser le chemin tortueux de l'intrigante Odette. Fasciné par la demoiselle et ses sœurs, prisonnières d'un antique sortilège, il voit là la quête de son existence et se fait la promesse de leur venir en aide. Mais a-t-il seulement conscience du danger qui rôde dans les bois et des ténèbres qui entourent la princesse ?

"Je quitte mon monde, une fois de plus, pour aller à la rencontre du vôtre. Je m'approche des lumières qui ceinturent vos rivages. Je respire l'odeur de votre terre, de vos plantes et de vos feux. Je longe vos côtes. Je peux nager longtemps. Inlassable, je fends l'eau. Je cherche ce chant à nul autre pareil. Ce chant que les femmes adressent à leurs hommes perdus." L'histoire de la sirène qui aimait l'homme n'a pas d'âge, l'impossibilité de cette pulsion se noue à la manière des grandes tragédies et étouffe inexorablement l'héroïne.

Disguised as a peasant, Cecilia has been hiding for years from the evil people who killed her parents. Now the time has come to reclaim her title. There's just one problem. Princess Desmia - supposedly Cecilia's decoy - believes a different version of the story.

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.