Merrowkin

<p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Meri Murphy is not a mermaid's daughter. At least she doesn't think she is.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>What she does know is that her father is the town drunk who tells anyone who will listen that his wife hadn't left him fourteen years ago. No she was a mermaid and returned to the sea to save her people and all of Ireland from an evil tyrant.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Meri wishes he would stop telling that story.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Everything changes during a school trip to the Cliffs of Moher. First Meri learns that mermaids were once called merrows and their children are the merrowkin. While at the Cliffs she glimpses a golden tower on the waves and learns about a city that lies at the bottom of the bay between Ireland above and the land of gods below a barrier between the two worlds that rises once every seven years. Suddenly her father's stories aren't the strangest things she's heard.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Accompanied by her friend Aodhan Meri embarks on a quest to discover what really happened to her mother and hopefully bring her home.</span></p>