Juna Lee Poinfax is a rebellious modern mermaid with a large checking account and a snarky attitude. When one of her escapades lands her in trouble with the worldwide Mer Council she's forced to perform community service by luring a halfling (half-mer half-human) to the Georgia coast for indoctrination as a mer person. That halfling clueless children's book author Molly Revere finds herself kidnapped annoyed and soon in the thrall of a handsome Scottish merman who is tracking a rogue mer.