Tempest Maguire wants nothing more than to surf the killer waves near
her California home; continue her steady relationship with her
boyfriend, Mark; and take care of her brothers and surfer dad. But
Tempest is half mermaid, and as her seventeenth birthday approaches, she
will have to decide whether to remain on land or give herself to the
ocean like her mother. The pull of the water becomes as insistent as her
attraction to Kai, a gorgeous surfer whose uncanny abilities hint at an
otherworldly identity as well. And when Tempest does finally give in to
the water's temptation and enters a fantastical underwater world, she
finds that a larger destiny awaits her-and that the entire ocean's
future hangs in the balance.