Summary: There is a reward for missing fugitive billionaire Russell Pickett, so Aza and her friend Daisy look for him. It turns out she used to know his son Davis Pickett. Aza also suffers from OCD. In this case her obsessiveness is distinctly unhelpful, hijacking the mystery itself. The book explores different kinds of love. This includes romance, friendship, love from parents, etc. It also explores the question of how a person distinguishes their “self” as a distinct thing. Is a person merely the byproduct of their circumstances? This question fuels the character’s anxiety-ridden thought spirals.

Summary: A moralistic rebuke and rejection. Still uses striking imagery. Refers to the mermaid as nephilim, “half fish, half fallen angel… Sloping to hateful sunsets… Hollow with mineshafts, naked with granite, fanatic/With sorrow, abortions of the past.”

Summary: A ballad describing the landscape of Zennor, the grey granite, bleak fields and legend carved in teak. On the horizon appears foam with the waves and the ascending seabirds. The mermaid implores the young boy to come down from the church stones to be with her.

Summary: A memorial to the mermaid chair, carved from holy oak in the city of Zennor. A sea lady is intrigued by a young man’s singing. They both disapear and sailors see them in the ocean.

Summary: A mermaid hears the singing of a pretty boy and bodes him to join her in the sea, away from the troubles of the land.