A mermaid who conducted a life on land with a fisherman, brought short by his ageing alongside her longer lifespan, is sought after by P.T. Barnum, who trades in the strange and unusual. The author of the "Black Wings" series applies a dark, compelling and distinctive style throughout.
From the author of Lost Boy comes a beautiful historical fairy tale about a mermaid who leaves the sea, only to become the star attraction of history's greatest showman.
Once there was a mermaid called Amelia who could never be content in the sea, a mermaid who longed to know all the worl...
Once there was a fisherman who lived on a cold and rocky coast and was never able to convince any woman to come away and live in that forbidding place with him. One evening he pulled up his net and found a woman in it. A woman with black hair and eyes as grey as a stormy sea and a gleaming fish's...