"The mermaids of the WaterLilies series are back in this magical romance."

Juna Lee Poinfax isn't your average gorgeous, long-limbed, long-haired socialite. She also happens to be a mermaid - one of an entire race coexisting with ordinary humans (Landers). After committing a very public faux pas involving Donald Trump, Juna is "mer non grata" with her family. When she's assigned to find a "Floater" (a mermaid who's unaware of his or her heritage and gifts), Juna seizes the opportunity and kidnaps Molly Revere, an author of children's books. Molly believes her beautiful captor is crazy until she begins to hear and see things that make her own undersea fantasy stories seem like documentaries.

Molly has been brought into the family to help save three young Mer girls. Their father, the mysterious Orion, has been searching for them since their mother's death - a death he is rumored to have caused. The girls' uncle, ex- military man Rhymer McEvers, has pledged to protect his nieces at all costs, but the family hopes that Molly's gentle influence can persuade him to avoid violence.

This second book in Ms. Smith's WaterLilies series (following ALICE AT HEART) is a magical mixture of humor, adventure and romance. The love story between Molly and Rhymer has the beauty of a fairy tale, while Juna Lee provides pop culture references and her own unique perspective on things in the "chick-lit" style. Readers will find her equally fascinating and irritating! As an additional treat, an addendum in the back of the book gives more insight into Mer culture and history. So suspend your disbelief from the highest yardarm and dive into this story, a tale as light and frothy as seafoam...The perfect summer read!

Reviewed by Lenore Howard
Posted June 16, 2004

Summary

Glamour, mystery, romance, humor and webbed toes are all back in full fin as rambunctious mer-socialite Juna Lee Poinfax invades the dignified coastal world of the Bonavendier clan. Determined to chronicle mer life for her on-line journal, Juna Lee instead dives into Lilith Bonavendier's latest scheme to awaken the "inner mermaid" in an unsuspecting distant relative. World-famous author M.M. (Molly) Revere -- who writes the mega-successful Water Hyacinth series about a group of children who are secretly mermaids--is a shy, plain-footed young woman with nothing but vague clues to her extraordinary family link to the mer world.