num_pages: 228
description: Colin Everroad should be dead but after his lobster boat founders during a violent storm off the Maine coast he wakes up on a beach. Hes cold but unscathed with strange memories of a face he cant conjure and a voice he doesnt recognize. No one can explain it but a friend suggests Colin was saved by one of the mer. Except the mer dont exist. Do they? But that face. That voice. Someone was in the water with him. Someone saved him. If not a mer then who? And whoever it was Colin wants to see his face. Lir broke protocol by rescuing a land person but he couldnt just let the man drown. When he disobediently resurfaces to see his beautiful land man he knows its only a matter of time before hes forbidden to leave the depths again. One clandestine visit turns into more. Soon Colin and Lir are meeting at the shore as often as possible and the connection between them deepens. The only problem is that neither can live in the others world. Or can they? Then Lir finds a way for them to be together but only for a little while and at a cost. As time grows short they have to choose: does Lir return to the sea and never see Colin again or stay forever with the man he loves in a world that will never love them? Ripples &amp; Waves is a modern queer retelling of Hans Christian Andersens The Little Mermaid.
language: English
title: Ripples & Waves: A Queer Retelling of Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid
publisher: None