Emerge

In EMERGE, debut author Tobie Easton creates a world where merfolk live on land to escape the violence in which their sea world has been embroiled. Lia Nautilus, a mermaid raised in Malibu’s hidden community of land-dwelling Mer, must keep her identity a secret at school. That means she can’t get too close to her human classmates. Especially not bad boy Clay Ericson, who she’s had a major crush on since last year. But when Lia finds out Clay’s new girlfriend is a mermaid who’s just arrived on land, seeing them together brings Lia’s feelings for him to the surface. She knows she can’t date humans, but when she finds out that his girlfriend, Melusine, is using an evil siren song to brainwash him and control his actions, she steps in to save him and in doing so, falls in love and into a whirlwind she could never have imagined.