In a desperate attempt to save a boy from drowning, Jake Taylor dives in to save him. Yet the two of them mysteriously disappear with out a trace. His fiancé and family search the entire complex finding no sign of either of the lost boys.

Two weeks later Jake returns to Palm's Inn. His father finds him crawling out of the pool half dead and half human. He finds him self changed into a kind of mermaid. Though to all the guests of Palm's Inn Jake's rather odd and unexplainable reappearance may seem like a fairy tale, it leaves Jake's life ultimately shattered.

But then again this is a darker kind of fairy tale. Jake warns the people of Palm's Inn that what did this to him is monster. Then the boy returns out of the water like Jake did. He's found more of a monster than anything with a hint of human in it. It only proves Jake right. It is also just the smallest part of what is about to happen at Palm's Inn.