Fins Are Forever

Tera Lynn Childs's sequel to Forgive My Fins offers another tail-flicking romance with plenty of fun, sun, and underwater adventure.

On Lily Sanderson's eighteenth birthday she'll become just a girl?still a mergirl, true, but signing the renunciation will ink Princess Waterlily of Thalassinia out of existence. That leaves plain old Lily living on land, dating the boy she loves, and trying to master this being-human thing once and for all.

Now that Lily and Quince are together, mer bond or not, she's almost content to give up her place in the royal succession of Thalassinia. But just when she thinks she has everything figured out, the waves start to get rough.

Lily's father sends a certain whirlpool-stirring cousin to stay with her on land. What did Doe do to get herself exiled from Thalassinia and stuck in terraped form when everyone knows how much she hates humans? And why why why is she batting her eyelashes at Lily's former crush, Brody?

The seafoam on the raging surf comes when a merboy from Lily's past shows up?Tellin asks Lily for something that clouds her view of the horizon. There's a future with Quince on land, her loyalty to the kingdom in the sea, and Lily tossing on the waves in the middle.

Will she find a way to reconcile her love, her duty, and her own dreams?

• YA Paranormal Romance: Lily Sanderson is a mermaid princess ready to trade her crown for a life on land with her human boyfriend, Quince. But giving up her destiny is more complicated than she ever imagined.
• Secret Identity: Lily's life gets crazier when her cousin Doe is exiled to land, threatening to expose more than just Lily's patience?especially when she starts flirting with Lily's ex-crush, Brody.
• First Love: Now that she and Quince are finally together, Lily is sure she's made the right choice. But between meddling family and royal obligations, their new relationship is about to be tested.
• Underwater Kingdom: A visit from a merboy from her past, Prince Tellin, forces Lily to choose: a future with Quince on land, or her loyalty to the kingdom of Thalassinia.