This fantasy adventure starts long before billionaire Tyler Payne finds mermaids washed up on his New Zealand island. Tyler Payne is a crude man that even his family has issues with. In the beginning, he and his college friends Judd and Marisol share a fascination for marine biology. They even experience an unforgettable event while vacationing in New Zealand, an event they remember long after graduation.
Tyler breaks up their trio when he marries Marisol and the couple part ways with Judd for a while. They all become researchers in similar fields and Tyler buys his own island when his ambition makes him a billionaire. He hires Judd to work for him; along with Isaac Short, someone else from their college days. Tyler’s secluded island is virtually population free, except for staff and authorized visitors.
The discovery of mermaids lead to Tyler conducting heartless experiments that Marisol and Judd eventually want to stop. They become a threat to Tyler’s work, not to mention he’s convinced they’re having an affair. In a fit of jealous rage, Tyler gives the order to murder Judd. Now he has to cover his tracks about the sinister experiments. But Tyler Jr., Judd’s daughter Ashley and Isaac’s twin sons, Zak and Jake are all arriving on the island. The four teens are on vacation.
No one knows that Zak is already there and has secretly witnessed the murder in horror. By the time the other three teens arrive, all hell is breaking loose! Zak alerts them by describing the murder and how Tyler treated Marisol. Even Tyler Jr. suspects they may all be in danger. As the teenagers try to find answers and make their way off the island, Zak meets one of the mermaids while Ashley makes an even more unbelievable discovery!.
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Bruno raised his gun with only the slightest hesitation then quickly squeezed off three shots. The shots rang out loudly and were instantly followed by another sound. It was the thud of a body hitting the ground, but this time, the sound was drowned out by the constant roar of the water. The three people that had just appeared from the other side of the cave now stood on a small isolated beach. They stood, several feet away from the picturesque waterfall that managed to hide the cave they had just emerged from. The water was spilling out of the rocky mouth of another opening in the cave, from above.
When the body didn’t move, Tyler Payne looked at his wife with a satisfied expression on his face. Marisol Payne immediately let out a shrill scream that was even louder than the noise from Bruno’s gun.
One minute Tyler Payne’s bodyguard had been wielding the gun, holding it on Judd and Marisol just like his boss had instructed. The next, he was pulling the trigger, obeying Tyler Payne’s orders for him to shoot Professor Richards. Now the Professor’s body lay in a bloody heap. He died before even hitting the ground.
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Less than ten minutes before the three deafening shots had rang out in the jungle, Myrrah had watched the small group as they left the cave and emerged on the other side. She had eyed them intently when she swam around in the pool located on the inside of the cave. As usual, she was lurking just beneath the surface of the water, but no one could really see her. It was a murky green color so it managed to conceal her entire body. She cautiously lifted her head out of the water and listened intently. She couldn’t determine what the noises above her were all about. After all this time in captivity, that was how she continued to view the voices of her captors, as noises or utterances. The noises that Myrrah heard today were all jumbled together. One of them wasn’t even familiar to her, so Myrrah couldn’t have comprehended what was being said if she tried. While she may not have understood the words; there was no mistaking the negative energy that filled the cave.
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