Mermaid's Secret

From Katie Schickel one of Booklist''s Top 10 Women''s fiction of 2015 comes The Mermaid''s Secret an original fresh and absolutely captivating beach read.Life on land is suffocating for Jess Creary who wastes her summers flipping burgers for tourists on a fishing boat off her quaint resort island home off the coast of Maine. After all her older sister Kay died in a boating accident two years ago her mother has disappeared and her father isn''t exactly dealing with things so well. Surfing and the handsome Captain Matthew are about the only bright spots in her life.Then on her twenty-third birthday Jess catches the perfect wave--a wave that transforms her into a mermaid. Under the sea a startlingly beautiful dark place Jess is reborn into a confident powerful predator with superhuman strength --finally she is someone to be reckoned with. Meanwhile back on land Jess''s relationship with Captain Matthew heats up and so does her search for justice for Kay. Jess has thirty days to choose between land and sea; legs and fins; her humanity and her freedom. Who could ignore the freedom of the sea? Yet the ocean is a dark wild lonely place. Is this a gift or a curse? Will Jess choose family and love forgiveness and truth or will she be seduced by the wild call of the sparkling sea forever?