An award-winning author tells of a mermaid who leaves the sea in search of her landish mother in a captivating tale spun with beautiful prose; lush descriptions; empathy; and keen wit. Blood calls to blood; charm calls to charm. It is the way of the world. Come close and tell us your dreams. Sanna is a mermaid - but she is only half seavish. The night of her birth; a sea-witch cast a spell that made Sanna's people; including her landish mother; forget how and where she was born. Now Sanna is sixteen and an outsider in the seavish matriarchy; and she is determined to find her mother and learn who she is. She apprentices herself to the witch to learn the magic of making and unmaking; and with a new pair of legs and a quest to complete for her teacher; she follows a clue that leads her ashore on the Thirty-Seven Dark Islands. There; as her fellow mermaids wait in the sea; Sanna stumbles into a wall of white roses thirsty for blood; a hardscrabble people hungry for miracles; and a baroness who will do anything to live forever. From the author of the Michael L. Printz Honor Book The Kingdom of Little Wounds comes a gorgeously told tale of belonging; sacrifice; fear; hope; and mortality.