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. He's cold, but unscathed... with strange memories of a face he can't conjure and a voice he doesn't recognize. No one can explain it, but a friend suggests Colin was saved by one of the mer. Except the mer don't exist. Do they? But... that face. That voice. Someone was in the water with him. Someone saved...