Secrets of a Hawaiian Mermaid
Anela Fuller has always been a little different and a little weird. Found as a toddler alone and unconscious on the lava fields of Maui with no memory as to who she was, strange occurrences have always followed her: hearing people's thoughts and manipulating their actions, moving objects without touching them, and hearing voices from an ocean that terrifies her. The only clue she has about her identity is a broken bronze medallion that has so far refused to give up its secrets.
Adopted by the hospital nurse who cared for her gave her, she grew up with the semblance of a normal life even if the school bully and her own resentful adoptive sister never let her forget that she wasn't. The day Anela left for school on the mainland was the happiest day of her life.
Now 34, Anela has returned home to Lahaina for her mother's funeral. The second her plane touched down at Kahului airport all her strange abilities that had been dormant came roaring back with a vengeance. Her sister blames Anela for the great tragedy in her life, and her young niece suspects Anela may be more than just her auntie. Anela can't wait to leave Maui behind for good.
That's when a mysterious young man shows up at her doorstep with the missing piece to her medallion and the answer to all of her life's questions: she is a mermaid.
The idea that Anela is a sea creature straight out of ancient mythology seems ludicrous to her until an accident at sea reveals her mermaid tail for the very first time. Knowing the truth isn't the same as gaining comfort from that knowledge, especially when that knowledge conflicts with her human upbringing.
As she struggles to understand her aquatic heritage and master her abilities under the young man's frustrating tutelage, dark forces rise from the ocean depths intent on shaping Anela's future for themselves and obtaining her now-reunited medallion that could give them dominance over the entire world and not just its oceans.
