MONSTROUS BEAUTY

Fierce seductive mermaid Syrenka falls in love with Ezra a young naturalist. When she abandons her life underwater for a chance at happiness on land she is unaware that this decision comes with horrific and deadly consequences. Almost one hundred forty years later seventeen-year-old Hester meets a mysterious stranger named Ezra and feels overwhelmingly inexplicably drawn to him. For generations love has resulted in death for the women in her family. Is it an undiagnosed genetic defect . . . or a curse? With Ezra''s help Hester investigates her family''s strange sad history. The answers she seeks are waiting in the graveyard the crypt and at the bottom of the ocean - but powerful forces will do anything to keep her from uncovering her connection to Syrenka and to the tragedy of so long ago.