Monstrous beauty

By Elizabeth Fama

Subjects: Mermaids, Ghost stories, Supernatural, Paranormal fiction, Murder, Homicide, Fiction, Mermaids and mermen, Juvenile fiction, History, Ghosts

Description: In alternating chapters, tells of the mermaid Syrenka's love for Ezra in 1872 that leads to a series of horrific murders, and present-day Hester's encounter with Ezra's ghost that reveals her connection to the murders and to Syrenka.