Amae is not Disney’s mermaid. While she lives among the humans after being exiled from Salacia by her father, there is no denying that she is something alien and other. Her true form is sharp and dangerous, all shark teeth and razor-sharp fins and claws. Terrifyingly beautiful, she’s otherworldly and predatory. Even the way she thinks is cold and calculating, yet that isn’t even close to the soldier her father wants her to be.

However, as she discovers, she is not the scariest predator in the ocean right now. Something is decimating killer whales and leaving their bodies for humans to find. When she is contacted by a field biologist conducting research on orcas in the Puget Sound, she realizes that she needs to uncover the truth of these killings. Working together with a selkie, albeit grudgingly, they need to stop whatever is merciless killing before it draws even more attention from the humans and possibly reveals their secret as well.

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