pbiA refreshingly menacing take on the mermaid mythos. -- PUBLISHERS WEEKLYbribppbiAn exciting, dramatic, and tender tale of adolescent self-discovery--above and below the ocean. -- FOREWORDibbrpp15-year-old Corinth was just trying to clean up the beach she never expected to meet a mermaid, let alone be nearly drowned by one. It was the start of a ivery istrange friendship!p pbrpAfter Skylla, the deadly fanged mermaid, mysteriously lets Corinth live, they grow closer through a cautious exchange of stories, gifts, jokes, and sign language. Mermaids, it turns out, eat people, but however terrifying Skylla may look, she's a little younger, a little smaller, and perhaps a little too soft for all that. Bewitched by Corinth and their growing bond, she learns about all the best things in life on land books, burgers, donuts, and this strange chattering human sound called laughter. But a storm is brewing - both at sea and in Corinth's increasingly dangerous relationship with her obsessively jea