Once upon a time... Orpheo never meant to disobey his father or betray his kind, but when he finds the young human woman weeping over the death of her own father, his compassionate heart moves him to comfort her. All Rose ever wanted was to make her father proud, but after the mysterious Boy in the Sea eases her through her grief, Rose throws aside her reservations and vows she will find the boy and marry him. As Rose despairs of ever finding him, Orpheo sells his voice to the Sea Witch and gives up his family in a desperate bid to fulfill their love and heal a hundred-year rift between their worlds. But restoration cannot be bought through black magic, and when Orpheo becomes human, Rose does not recognize him. At the end of all hope, only great sacrifice can bring Rose and Orpheo a happily ever after. FROM AWARD WINNING AUTHOR K. B. HOYLE comes a gender-bent reimagining of Hans Christian Andersen's timeless fairytale of the little mermaid who fell in love with a human-with several epic twists and turns thrown in. A tale of love, destiny, and of the tension between desire and self-sacrifice, Son of the Deep is a classic coming of age story that is sure to excite a new audience of young and not-so-young readers alike.