At once fresh and familiar, heartbreaking and full of hope, this dark retelling of Hans Christian Andersonâ€™s The Little Mermaid is like a gorgeous dream remembered.â€�-Jeanine Cummins, bestselling author of A Rip in Heaven and The Outside Boy â€œAs moody and atmospheric as a gothic novel, Mermaid is a heartfelt portrait of young love and all its sweet complications. She is one of my new favorite writers.â€�-Jo-Ann Mapson, author of Solomonâ€™s Oak and the Bad Girl Creek trilogy â€œThis Mermaid is resplendent with shimmering details, the dark and thrilling story behind that comforting childhood memory. Carolyn Turgeonâ€™s Mermaid evokes just that feeling. This isnâ€™t kidâ€™s stuff.â€�- Kirkus Reviews 'Vividly imagined and skillfully told, Mermaid is a dark tale that shimmers with light.'-Cathy Marie Buchanan, New York Times bestselling author of The Day the Falls Stood Still â€œThere is a part of every reader that longs to return to the days of reading fairy tales and myths, when imagination had no limits and stories were spellbinding.

Â€œAbsorbing, poignant, and heartbreaking&Readers who love fairy tale retellings will find this fresh take difficult to put down.â€�- Library Journal â€œTurgeon has done a superb job of creating compelling characters and conflict from a story already familiar to readers.â€�- Publishers Weekly â€œA gothic love triangle with two equally matched heroines. Beautifully written and compulsively readable, Mermaid will make you think twice about the fairytale you heard as a child, keeping you in suspense until the very last page. She is willing to trade her home, her voice, and even her health for legs and the chance to win his heart. Meanwhile, the mermaid princess Lenia longs to return to the human man she carried to safety. Sure that the mermaid brought this man to her for a reason, Margrethe devises a plan to bring peace to her kingdom. As Margrethe nurses the handsome stranger back to health, she learns that not only is he a prince, he is also the son of her father's greatest rival. By the time Margrethe reaches the shore, the mermaid has disappeared into the sea. One gloomy, windswept morning as she stands in a convent garden overlooking the icy sea, she witnesses a miracle: a glittering mermaid emerging from the waves, a nearly drowned man in her arms. Princess Margrethe has been hidden away while her kingdom is at war. A surprising take on Hans Christian Anderson's classic tale, Mermaid is the story of two women with everything to lose.

Mermaid by carolyn turgeon