The Mermaid's Sister

The Mermaid's Sister

<p><b>Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Winner for Young Adult Fiction, 2014</b></p><p><b>Realm Award Winner for Best Speculative Fiction of the Year, 2016</b></p><p><i>There is no cure for being who you really are...</i></p> <p>In a cottage high atop Llanfair Mountain, sixteen-year-old Clara lives with her sister, Maren, and guardian Auntie. By day, they gather herbs for Auntie€s healing potions; by night, Auntie spins tales of faraway lands and wicked fairies. Clara€s favorite story tells of three orphaned infants€"Clara, who was brought to Auntie by a stork; Maren, who arrived in a seashell; and their best friend, O€Neill, who was found beneath an apple tree. </p><p>One day, Clara discovers iridescent scales just beneath her sister€s skin: Maren is becoming a mermaid and must be taken to the sea or she will die. So Clara, O€Neill, and the mermaid-girl set out for the shore. But the trio encounters trouble around every bend. Ensnared by an evil troupe of traveling performers, Clara and O€Neill must find a way to save themselves and the ever-weakening Maren. </p><p>And always in the back of her mind, Clara wonders, <i>if my sister is a mermaid, then what am I?</i></p>