One evening, a lonely fisherman found a mermaid in his net. She stayed with him and lived as a woman on land and a mermaid in the sea, while he aged and she did not. News of this strange and unusual woman reached the ears of a man who sold the strange and unusual. He was P.T. Barnum, and he was looking for a mermaid.

Klappentext A mermaid who conducted a life on land with a fisherman, brought short by his ageing alongside her longer lifespan, is sought after by P.T. Barnum, who trades in the strange and unusual. The author of the "Black Wings" series applies a dark, compelling and distinctive style throughout. Zusammenfassung Once there was a fisherman! a lonely man who lived on a cold and rocky coast and was never able to convince any woman to come away and live in that forbidding place with him. He loved the sea more than any person and so was never able to take a wife! for women see what is in men's hearts more clearly than men would wish.