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In A Song of the Sea, 13 year-old Serene Morgan allegedly loses her mother at a young age. Since then, she hates the sea and chooses to move from her hometown by the sea to the city with her aunt. However, one day her and her aunt are called back to Crowning Bay for her father's wedding & remarrying to his long term girlfriend.
Serene hates this because it means she will have to recap her heartache of her mother's death, her growing loneliness, and being forced to move on about it all. Once in Crowning, she attempts to drown herself-- and encounters a mer-creature that kisses her and gives her the ability to breathe, see and swim underwater.
And she hopes to meet the mer-boy again, until news of a local cult sacrificing people to a sea goddess surfaces. Yet, somehow, she gains a desire to know more of the underwater world and what secrets it can bring-- something unexpected, maybe?