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What happens to the girls nobody sees—the ones who are ignored, mistreated, hidden away? The girls nobody hears when they cry for help?

Fourteen-year-old Luce is one of those lost girls. After her father vanishes in a storm at sea, she is stuck in a grim, gray Alaskan fishing village with her alcoholic uncle. When her uncle crosses an unspeakable line, Luce reaches the depths of despair. Abandoned on the cliffs near her home, she expects to die when she tumbles to the icy, churning waves below. Instead, she undergoes an astonishing transformation and becomes a mermaid.

A tribe of mermaids finds Luce and welcomes her in—all of them, like her, lost girls who surrendered their humanity in the darkest moments of their lives. The mermaids are beautiful, free, and ageless, and Luce is thrilled with her new life until she discovers the catch: they feel an uncontrollable desire to drown seafarers, using their enchanted voices to lure ships into the rocks.

Luce’s own talent at singing captures the attention of the tribe’s queen, the fierce and elegant Catarina, and Luce soon finds herself pressured to join in committing mass murder. Luce’s struggle to retain her inner humanity puts her at odds with her friends; even worse, Catarina seems to regard Luce as a potential rival. But the appearance of a devious new mermaid brings a real threat to Catarina’s leadership and endangers the very existence of the tribe. Can Luce find the courage to challenge the newcomer, even at the risk of becoming rejected and alone once again?

Traduction approximative:

Qu'advient-il des filles personne ne voit-ceux qui sont ignorés, maltraités, caché? personne entend les filles quand elle pleurent àl'aide?

Quatorze ans Luce est une de ces filles perdues. Après que son père disparaît dans une tempête en mer, elle est coincée dans un sombre village de pêcheurs de l'Alaska gris avec son oncle alcoolique. Lorsque son oncle traverse une ligne indicible, Luce atteint les profondeurs du désespoir. Abandonné sur les falaises près de son domicile, elle s'attend à mourir quand elle tombe aux glacées, les vagues tumultueuses ci-dessous. Au lieu de cela, elle subit une transformation étonnante et devient une sirène.

Une tribu de sirènes trouve Luce et lui souhaite la bienvenue dans chacun d'eux, comme elle, perdu filles qui se sont rendus de leur humanité dans les moments les plus sombres de leur vie. Les sirènes sont belles, libre, et sans âge, et Luce est ravie de sa nouvelle vie jusqu'à ce qu'elle découvre la capture: ils ressentent un désir incontrôlable de se noyer les gens de mer, en utilisant leurs voix enchantées pour attirer les navires dans les rochers.

Propre talent de Luce à chanter capte l'attention de la reine de la tribu, le féroce et élégant Catarina, et Luce se trouve bientôt poussés à se joindre à commettre assassiner en masse. Lutte Luce à conserver son humanité intérieure la met en contradiction avec ses amis, et même pire, Catarina semble considérer Luce comme un rival potentiel. Mais l'apparition d'une sirène retors nouvelle apporte une réelle menace pour le leadership Catarina et met en danger l'existence même de la tribu. Peut-Luce trouver le courage de défier le nouveau venu, même au risque de devenir rejetée et seul une fois de plus?

After parting ways with her troubled mermaid tribe, Luce just wants to live peacefully on her own. But her tranquility doesn?t last long: she receives news that the tribe is on the verge of collapse and desperately needs her leadership. The tribe?s cruel queen wants Luce dead. Dorian, the boy Luce broke mermaid law to save, is determined to make her pay for her part in the murder of his family. And while the mermaids cling to the idea that humans never suspect their existence, there are suddenly ominous signs to the contrary.

But when Luce and Dorian meet, they start to wonder if love can overpower the hatred they know they should feel for each other. Can Luce fulfill her rightful role as queen of the mermaids without sacrificing her forbidden romance with Dorian?

IN THE ENCHANTED KINGDOM OF BROOKLYN the fashionable people put on cute shoes, go to parties in warehouse, drink on rooftops at sunset, and tell themselves they've arrived. A whole lot of Brooklyn is like that now -but not Vassa's working-class neighborhood.

In VAssa's neighborhood, where she lives with her stepmother and bickering stepsisters, one might stumble onto magic, but stumblng away again could become an issue. Babs Yagg, the owner of the local convenience store, has a policy of beheading shoplifters - and sometimes innocent shoppers as well. When Vassa's stepsister sends her out for lithbulbs in the middle of the night, she knows it could easily become a suicide mssion.

But Vassa has a bit of luck hidden in her pocket, a gift from her dead mother. Erg is a tough-talking wooden doll with sticky fingers, a bottomless stomach, and a ferocious cunning. With Erg’s help, Vassa just might be able to break the witch’s curse and free her Brooklyn neighborhood. But Babs won’t be playing fair…

Bound by haunting tragedies, Ksenia Adderley and Joshua Korensky have shared a home as foster siblings since they were children. Despite their opposite personalities--Ksenia is prickly, mistrustful, Josh, flamboyant and outgoing--they are fiercely protective of one another. As teens, they've grown even closer. Some say unnaturally so.

With Ksenia's eighteenth birthday approaching, their guardians expect her to move out. They want to free Josh of his obsession with the foster-sister whom they regard as a strange, unhealthy influence. But they don't understand the depths of Josh's feelings for Ksenia and how desperate he is to ensure they stay together--forever.

The one called Prince understands all too well. Attracted by the intensity of Josh's desires and Ksenia's fears, he can grant them a home among his kind: beautiful creatures not of this earth. All they have to do is surrender their very humanity and succumb to the cruel whims of Prince and his fae courtiers...