Cameron Weatherall is a soldier in gray, but he never saw himself apart of humanity and all its bloody arguments. He dreams of something more. In the year 1862, Cameron is sent with his platoon on a ship to reinforce Fort McRee on the Pensacola Bay Sound. Along the way, his world is turned upside down in a startling discovery.
Mermaids–the sea maids of ancient myth–are real!
The ship he rides is capsized and Cameron nearly loses his life, but he is rescued and begins the struggle of raising protection for the Fort.
Fort Pickens, the Yankee-held bastille has dark and evil plans for its neighbour.
But Cameron could almost not care at all. He is too obsessed with befriending this otherworldly creature. Spending any time he can find between chores, he discusses life and principles with her.
She gives him a choice: would he leave his world to join her under the sea? Are she and the mystic marine land more important to him than his own race?