An award-winning author tells of a mermaid who leaves the sea in

search of her landish mother in a captivating tale spun with beautiful prose, lush descriptions, empathy, and keen wit.

Sanna is a mermaid – but she is only half seavish. The night of her birth, a sea-witch cast a spell that made Sanna's people, including her landish mother, forget how and where she was born. Now Sanna is sixteen and an outsider in the seavish matriarchy, and she is determined to find her mother and learn who she is. She apprentices herself to the witch to learn the magic of making and unmaking, and with a new pair of legs and a quest to complete for her teacher, she follows a clue that leads her ashore on the Thirty-Seven Dark Islands. There, as her fellow mermaids wait in the sea,

Sanna stumbles into a wall of white roses thirsty for blood, a hardscrabble people hungry for miracles, and a baroness who will do anything to live forever.

本书讲述了一个美人鱼离开大海寻找母亲的故事，这个迷人的故事由美丽的散文、丰富的描述、同情心和敏锐的智慧编织而成。

桑娜是一条美人鱼，但她只有一半的海族血统。在她出生的那天晚上，一个海巫师施了一个咒语，让桑娜的族人，包括她在陆地上的母亲，忘记了她是如何出生，在哪里出生的。现在桑娜已经16岁了，是海族母系社会中的一个局外人，她决心找到自己的母亲，了解自己是谁。她向女巫学习制造和解除魔法，带着一双新的腿和要为老师完成的任务，她跟随一条线索，在37个黑暗群岛上岸。在那里，她的美人鱼伙伴们在海中等待，桑娜偶然发现了一堵渴求鲜血的白玫瑰墙，一个渴望奇迹的艰苦人民，以及一个为了长生不老而不惜一切的男爵夫人。