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Grace just moved to San Francisco and is excited to start over at a new school. Gretchen is tired of monsters pulling her out into the wee hours, especially on a school night. Greer has her life pretty well put together, thank you very much. Three teenage descendants of Medusa, the once-beautiful gorgon maligned by myth, must reunite and embrace their fates in this unique paranormal world where monsters lurk in plain sight.

Half-mermaid princess Lily Sanderson has been living on land for the past three years, crushing on Seaview swim-god Brody Bennett, dealing with annoying biker boy neighbor Quince Fletcher, and just generally trying to figure out this whole human thing. But everything changes when she accidentally bestows her magical first kiss on the wrong boy and they wind up swimming into an adventure they never expected.

(Warning: Forgive My Fins spoilers!) Lily is back on land with Quince, unbonded. On her eighteenth birthday she’ll become just a girl—still a mergirl, true, but signing the renunciation will ink Princess Waterlily 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. Just when she thinks she has everything figured out, the waves start to get rough.

(Warning: Forgive My Fins and Fins Are Forever spoilers!) Now that Lily is bonded (in name only) to Prince Tellin, she is on a mission to save his kingdom from the effects of ocean warming and environmental change. But as she dives deep into the world of mer politics she soon learns that Acropora’s problems are only the beginning. She has to find a way to balance safety and justice for the mer people as well as for the humans she loves.

What if the Greek gods were more than myth? When her mom remarries a mysterious Greek headmaster, cross-country-running California girl Phoebe Castro gets uprooted to a tiny island half a world away. When she gets there she learns that her new school is populated by the descendants of Greek gods. How can she secure her college scholarship when she’s competing academically and athletically with a school full of immortals?

(Warning: Oh. My. Gods. spoilers!) Now that Phoebe know she’s a descendant of Nike, everything should get easier. Right? Only controlling her new powers isn’t as easy as she thought and now she’s stuck spending the summer trying to figure them out. Then she starts getting anonymous notes that suggest her father’s death was more than it seemed. So much for her relaxing summer vacation.

Lydia Vanderwalk has an obsession with candy, so when she invents an NEB–non-existent boyfriend–who turns out to be the male hire-a-date equivalent of a jumbo box of Hot Tamales she knows she’s in trouble. He was supposed to be pure eye candy, but she soon learns that what you see is often much less than what you get when it comes to people and not everything in life can be solved by a Jolly Rancher and a trip to Ann Taylor.

Bethany Lange is a Southern belle-turned city girl boutique owner with a string of gay ex-boyfriends who lands a job on a gay makeover show. When one of the cast members turns out to be her latest ex, she’ll go to any lengths to prove that this one isn’t gay. She teams up with the show’s culinary expert, Chris, who has his own motives turns out to be way to yummy for her to resist, even if he’s not interested.