You Can't Fool a Mermaid

First Place Winner for Magical Realism and Grand Prize Winner for Literary and Contemporary Fiction in the 2023 Chanticleer International Book Awards Somerset Division.. In You Can’t Fool a Mermaid college student and pianist Violet Bacon must save her highly anticipated concert from sabotage. With time running out Violet rips into a flaw in the musical score and is blindsided by what she finds trapped behind the notes.. As theater seats fill and the house lights dim Violet enlists three unlikely allies—a quirky street musician a Russian Blue cat and an anchovy-sized mermaid—to help her set the score right. Together they must perform a little magic on a most bewitching evening or her performance will be doomed.