Synopsis
Desharow has dreamed of studying merfolk his entire academic life. When his mentor Rhine arranges a voyage and they pull a rare male merman from the waters off Iceland, it feels like everything he worked for. He doesn't notice immediately — how could he — that the creature has already made its decision. Not as a research subject. Something older than that. The signs accumulate slowly. His body starts changing in ways no textbook describes. Rhine has his own interest in the specimen, and it isn't purely scientific. Somewhere in the surrounding waters, military forces are watching for reasons tied…
