Marina, a water-breather, has spent her seventeen years obeying the commands of her adoptive mother and empress of the sea, Cordelia. One night when Marina is making a soul collection for the empress, trouble arises. She makes a quick decision to protect a human, a forbidden act below the Surface. With powers other merfolk don't possess, Marina erases the young man's memory of the incident and leaves him to wake on a South Carolina beach. Beck, a teen with a devastating past, awakens in the sand near the edge of lapping waves with no memory of arriving there. Pieces of a horrific accident,...