An above sea hunt for the pleasure and song of human women turns disastrous when Ariel, 77th daughter of the Mer Queen, shares rising tides — powerful passion — with the forbidden Erica. Court rivals quickly report her transgression and Ariel finds herself an example of what happens to those who defy the Queen.
Stripped of her voice and placed under a powerful curse, Ariel makes her way above water to Erica’s side. Erica, who is now dying for want of the one thing they can never share again.
Karin Kallmaker turns an originally dark fairy tale into a sensuous modern lesbian romance exploring boundaries of love and trust, atonement and pleasure.
The Lesbian Review says, "I couldn't stop. I couldn't put it down. It even haunted my dreams and I woke in the middle of the night to just keep reading it. I think Kallmaker put her own kind of spell on me."
Karin Kallmaker has been exclusively devoted to lesbian fiction since the publication of her first novel by Naiad Press in 1989. In addition to multiple Lambda Literary Awards, she has won the Ann Bannon Popular Choice, multiple Goldies and has been selected as a Trailblazer by the Golden Crown Literary Society. Her next novel is Because I Said So from Bella Books.
The California native is the mother of two. Her official website is https://kallmaker.com/ or search on social media for “Kallmaker” – there’s only one.