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Forget what you think you know about mermaids. \u00a0They aren\u2019t beautiful creatures with beautiful voices who long for nothing more than to be human\u2026 They are ruthless creatures who happen to be beautiful and have beautiful voices so they can better lure humans into the water in order to kill them and absorb their emotions! \u00a0Calder White is a merman whose family lives in\u00a0Lake Superior. \u00a0He leaves his sisters and migrates to the tropics \u00a0during the winter, but his instincts and family bond force him to return to Lake Superior every summer. \u00a0Returning is especially important this year, though, because his sisters believe that they have finally found Jason Hancock. \u00a0\u201dWho\u2019s that?,\u201d you ask. \u00a0Oh, only the man responsible for their mother\u2019s death.<\/p>\n
When Jason Hancock was a baby, his father fell into the lake and was rescued by a mermaid [Calder’s mom]. \u00a0In exchange for his life, he promised to give her his infant son [Jason] \u2014 but he left and took his\u00a0family\u00a0with him. \u00a0Calder\u2019s mother was furious and, in her anger, was caught and killed in a fisherman\u2019s net. \u00a0Not only do mermaids refuse to accept broken promises, but this family of mer-people wants revenge for their mother\u2019s death as well. \u00a0Calder\u2019s job is fairly simple. \u00a0He needs to find a way to get close to the family so that he can lure Jason into the water, where his sister\u2019s will exact their mother\u2019s revenge. \u00a0The only problem? \u00a0Calder starts to have feelings for Jason\u2019s eldest daughter, Lily. \u00a0My favorite part of this book? \u00a0The end page that said a sequel would be out in 2013!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Forget what you think you know about mermaids. \u00a0They aren\u2019t beautiful creatures with beautiful voices who long for nothing more than to be human\u2026 They are ruthless creatures who happen to be beautiful and have beautiful voices so they can better lure humans into the water in order to kill them and absorb their emotions! … Continue reading Lies Beneath by Anne Greenwood Brown<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,8,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-books-for-young-adults","category-fiction","category-reviewed-by-chrissie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}