Mermaids are not as beautiful and gentle as the fairy tales may suggest. In reality, they are drowned women cursed to roam the seas in search of revenge.
Phoebe Stanton is murdered on the day of her wedding. Instead of sinking to the bottom of the ocean, as her killer intended, she is transformed into a mermaid.
Struggling to fight the monstrous urges and keep her humanity, Phoebe suffers with only sharks as her only companions. But, in the Golden Age of Piracy, the seas are rarely a place of true isolation.
With the help of a curious Captain and a gentle barmaid, Phoebe can finally discover who she is truly meant to be.