Drown

<p><em>Seven emotionless princesses.<br />Three ghostly sirens.<br />A beautiful malicious witch haunted by memories.<br />A handsome self-mutilating prince.</em><br /><br />Belonging to a race that is mostly animal with little humanity a world obsessed with beauty where morality holds no sway a little mermaid escapes to the ocean’s surface. Discovering music a magnificent palace of glass and limestone and a troubled human prince she is driven by love to consult the elusive sea-witch who secretly dominates the entire species of merfolk. Upon paying an enormous price for her humanity the little mermaid begins a new life uncovering secrets of sexuality and the Immortal Soul. As a deadly virus threatens to contaminate the bloodstreams of the whole merfolk race the little mermaid must choose between the lives of her people the man she loves or herself.<br /><br />A complete reinvention of Hans Christian Andersen's classic fairy tale this is a magical-realist fable that captures the essence of sacrifice and the price of humanity.</p>