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"The beginning of what is sure to be a wonderful merfolk series"
Reviewed by Kelley Hartsell
Courtesy Love Romances
Posted August 11, 2002

Alice Riley has always been different from everyone else. She has special abilities and traits she needs to keep secret, for no one from her small town in Georgia could ever understand. She has unusual webbed toes and hair which grows exceptionally fast, requiring cutting every day. In addition, she Read more...

"An Imaginative and Charming Tale"
Reviewed by Marilyn Heyman
Posted October 6, 2002

Alice is a misfit in the small town where she lives. She knows that she is different and thinks of herself as a monster. Why does she have webbed feet, never gets cold and is able to breathe under water? When the town wants to honor her Read more...

"A beautiful fantasy romance"
Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted November 10, 2002

Though it is February, Odd Alice swims the icy waters of Lake Riley high in the Georgia Mountains as if it is a summer day. Her idyllic watery solace ends with a splash and a vision. She rescues a child who fell into the lake and Griffin Randolph, Read more...

Summary

Shy, charming, peculiar, and web-toed, Alice Riley has suffered for years at the hands of her dead mother's self- righteous family, while she hides a bevy of secret abilities. When Alice rescues a drowning child, her amazing talents are exposed. Alice can remain underwater for extraordinary periods of time, and she can locate submerged objects through some type of natural sonar ability. Her new fame/notoriety puts Alice in the national news, amidst allegations that she has somehow faked or manipulated the rescue for her own glory. Alice is trapped and desperate until three amazing older women arrive in her hometown. They are the regal and flamboyant Bonavendier sisters-- dignified Lilith, acerbic Mara, and whimsical Pearl--of Sainte's Point Island, their ancestral home off the coast of Georgia. They've read Alice's story in the news and are convinced that she is their long-lost (and much younger) half sister, conceived in a reckless seduction their elderly father confessed to before he died. Like Alice, the Bonavendier sisters have webbed toes and certain amazing abilities, though none of them have Alice's marked talent for finding things underwater. Alice is no oddity to them. They explain that--like them-- she is descended from a mermaid.