Once upon a time, there was a beautiful princess who thought she would be a queen. In time, she probably would have found her prince and taken the throne beside him, but this princess did not know that she was not completely human. No, she was a mermaid turned human, and the realm she would one day become queen over would be a world of mer, one her sister had abandoned long ago.

In order to rule, she would marry a merman, in spite of loving a very human prince and suffer cruelty from her mother. But that crown would be hers when her mother died, murdered by human traitors. She would have to find a to bring two species together to save not only the merman who was her husband, but the human she loved so deeply and dreamed so desperately to return to. And if she failed, she might yet be considered traitor to the mer in spite of her tail.

This would be quite the fairy tale, but it was my history. I am Alannah of the humans and Halellannah of the mer.