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Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Winner for Young Adult Fiction, 2014
Realm Award Winner for Best Speculative Fiction of the Year, 2016
There is no cure for being who you really are...
In a cottage high atop Llanfair Mountain, sixteen-year-old Clara lives with her sister, Maren, and guardian Auntie. By day, they gather herbs for Aunties healing potions; by night, Auntie spins tales of faraway lands and wicked fairies. Claras favorite story tells of three orphaned infantsClara, who was brought to Auntie by a stork; Maren, who arrived in a seashell; and their best friend, ONeill, who was found beneath an apple tree.
One day, Clara discovers iridescent scales just beneath her sisters skin: Maren is becoming a mermaid and must be taken to the sea or she will die. So Clara, ONeill, and the mermaid-girl set out for the shore. But the trio encounters trouble around every bend. Ensnared by an evil troupe of traveling performers, Clara and ONeill must find a way to save themselves and the ever-weakening Maren.
And always in the back of her mind, Clara wonders, if my sister is a mermaid, then what am I?
