Emma Jane Dance is fifteen-year-oid a bullied schoolgirl, who is just beginning to develop feelings for a boy, who lives in a poverty-stricken town in North Wales, but who is an excellent swimmer. She doesn't think there is anything special about her, especially as she is unable to hold her parents' marriage together and she is just easing her way through life. Until, one day, she meets mermaids and mermen and is told she is the only remaining human with Poseidon's, God of the Oceans and Seas, genes. There is problem in the seas with the evil dead, who are buried there, and she is the only person who can solve that problem. She has only fourteen days to swim thousands of miles and speak to the wife of Poseidon, to get her to understand that mankind still exists and that the dead cannot be released. A very exciting underwater fantasy adventure