Enter Elly Moss, The quirky 16-year old with hopes that something special will happen when she finds herself cooped up in a car on the way from her comfy New York high-rise to the beach manor in Cape Cod. While shopping at a mysterious book store and stumbling over a book that 'calls to her', she finds a mystical spell that could make her vacation a little more sweeter. Soon enough, Elly is singing under the mooon, growing scales and even finding herself a handsome merman himself. But when her hometown love is found missing, she has no choice but to risk her legs for his life.

skinny love : (n.) when two people love each other, but are too shy to admit it, even though they still show it. Paristella's Contest ~ Round 2 [ Short Story #54 / Romance #240 ]

what remains of us now what existed once then and what happened