Enough Tears to Fill the Sea
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Ever since Kylee lost her mom, she's carried a hurt that never quite fits into words - made worse by being uprooted to a new country to live with a father she barely knows and the family he built without her, leaving her feeling like an outsider in her new life. Her stepsister resents her. Her stepmother's kindness feels like a performance Kylee's not sure she believes, and her father looks at her as if she's a living reminder of everything he walked away from - though Kylee can't always tell whether that's true, or just what her own mind is telling her.
Most nights, she lies awake wishing she could disappear as easily as the life she left behind. Then a storm comes, and when she glances outside, something moves in the churning water of her father's pool the rain has no part in.
It shouldn't be possible.
Drawn by equal parts fear and desperate curiosity, Kylee heads outside to the water's edge - and finds a literal merman. Not just any merman, but the prince of the sea, stranded in a backyard pool, cut off from the ocean and the magic he needs to get home.
He offers her a proposition she can't refuse: find what he's lost, and he'll grant her any wish.
Maybe this is her chance to bring her mom back.
But as the search for what he's lost pulls her closer to the boy she found in her father's pool, Kylee begins to wonder whether the wish she came in chasing is still the one she wants by the time she reaches the end.
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