The Mermaid - Christina Henry
Category: Novel
Narrator: Cassandra Campbell
Tags: Novel, Historical Fiction, Adults, Romance
8h44m, From the author of Lost Boy comes a historical fairy tale about a mermaid who leaves the sea for love and later finds herself in P.T. Barnums American Museum as the real Fiji mermaid. However, leaving the museum may be harder than leaving the sea ever was., Once there was a mermaid who longed to know of more than her ocean home and her people. One day a fisherman trapped her in his net but couldnt bear to keep her. But his eyes were lonely and caught her more surely than the net, and so she evoked a magic that allowed her to walk upon the shore. The mermaid, Amelia, became his wife, and they lived on a cliff above the ocean for ever so many years, until one day the fisherman rowed out to sea and did not return., P. T. Barnum was looking for marvelous attractions for his American Museum, and hed heard a rumor of a mermaid who lived on a cliff by the sea. He wanted to make his fortune, and an attraction like Amelia was just the ticket., Amelia agreed to play the mermaid for Barnum
