A little mermaid with a big appetite…
Perpetua is a naiad, a beautiful sea creature. Beautiful-and deadly. Like all her kind, Perpetua must hunt and eat humans to survive.
When a hunt goes wrong, Perpetua saves the life of a human. But when her good deed is discovered, Perpetua’s fellow naiads cast her out. Cursed by the sea witch, Perpetua is transformed into a human.
Now Perpetua must navigate an unfamiliar world. Luckily, she has one friend: Demetri, the boy she saved. Unluckily, Demetri is a naiad hunter. Perpetua knows he can never find out what she was, or how many countless humans she’s killed.
Keeping this secret becomes more difficult once Perpetua makes a terrible discovery: she still hungers for humans and will not survive without feeding on them. Worse yet, Perpetua has developed feelings. Feelings for Demetri. Feelings that make her dread taking another life.
