Living as a human but knowing that no matter how much she wishes she was normal, the heroine denies herself any powers than come from being a mermaid. She's never slept with a man because she could never trust anyone with her secret. The hero is a FBI agent who's in the sector of paranormal studies. He's in the small town to look into some electronic frequencies and a death. There he meets the heroine. Immediately after they reach the small island belonging to her family, they are attacked by the evil mermaids and all parties are severely injured. The heroine wakes up under the control of the US government. They're keeping all Mer fork under lock and key for study and experimentations. At first they are given special treatment. Their rooms aren't prisons or cages and they have as much freedom as a top secret bunker can afford. But it's clear that they are feared and treated as less the human but the doctors and the military involved. The hero is given a mission to get close to the heroine and gain her trust, something he does easily and without much remorse. But steadily, as predicted, the family begins to be less and less 'guests' and more as prisoners. The government is experimenting on the enemy Mer is horrible ways and soon the heroine finds herself in chains when she demonstrates her power. I really disliked the hero because he wasn't ignorant of the governments plans but did nothing to stop them until it was too late. He knew from the instant he found out what the heroine was that the FBI would imprison them. He also knew how his colleges felt about them and how the enemy Mer were treated. Of course things were going to be bad for the heroine and her family because it's obvious the humans are assholes who are afraid of anything different to them. So it's after the family are imprisoned and the heroine experimented on that he finally decides to help them. Took him long enough. Also, he lies to the heroine throughout the book. And for the most part I don't feel any remorse from him, even when he sleeps with the heroine and thinks about being with her, he lies about everything he knows. I'm sorry, what a scumbag to basically use a very insecure female like that for you're own gain. But at least feel sorry about it. The heroine went from an independent woman, strong and resilient though lacking confidence with herself to a puddle of mush. She has no control of her powers and has a tendency to cave in of herself when embarrassed. Overall, I didn't like the pacing with the story as most of the time the characters are just sitting in a bunker talking to themselves. And add that to the dislike of the hero's character and the heroines weakness, I thought this book was Meh at best. ( )

This was an alright book. I enjoyed it, but I found the characters a bit bland. Yeah, it's probably how I would have acted if I'd been taken in by the FBI, but I expect the characters in a book to have a bit more spunk, and not just kind of shrug and accept what's happening. ( )