Shell I do it?

Sereiah Gastrell is an ordinary teenage girl carrying burdens far heavier than most people know. While helping manage her grandparents' beach resort, she juggles responsibility, heartbreak, and the quiet wounds left by years of bullying in high school. Underestimated and labeled weak because she never fights back, Sereiah has learned to endure in silence. With their parents separated and living new lives of their own, she and her little brother, Marcus, were left in the care of their grandparents, forcing Sereiah to grow up far too soon as a protective older sister.

Whenever life becomes too heavy, she escapes into memories of childhood, when she once believed in fairytales, legends, and mermaids. Now older and wiser, she dismisses them as foolish fantasies.

Her only real comfort is Theo Delmar, her best friend and the one person who has stayed by her side. Between his after-class side jobs and their stolen moments together, Theo is the only friendship Sereiah has ever truly known.

But one lonely evening by the shore, everything she thought she knew begins to unravel. Out of the waves emerges something impossible. Not a shark. Not a trick of the tide. But a tale made flesh.

Handsome, mysterious, and utterly unreal, he is no mermaid, but a merman named Cresswell.

And he needs her help.

Why would a mythical creature seek out an ordinary girl? What danger follows him from the sea? And when fantasy crashes into her broken reality, will Sereiah dare to answer the call? Some legends do not stay buried beneath the waves afterall.