When an injured merman is found washed up on a beach in Maine, his arrival at the ER leaves his new doctors are at a loss of how to treat him. Worse, how are they going to keep him from the military's eager hands?One reporter is hot on the trail of what she believes is an elaborate hoax-or the story of a lifetime. A story that has her tracking elusive clues into an ever-growing house of secrets surrounding one of the richest families in New York City.For merfolk have been hiding in plain sight for centuries, and are now torn between sacrificing one of their own-or telling humanity the truth.