But Barnum has never given up a money-making scheme in his life, and he's determined to hold on to his mermaid. He wanted to make his fortune, and an attraction like Amelia was just the ticket.Īmelia agreed to play the mermaid for Barnum, and she believes she can leave any time she likes. Barnum was looking for marvelous attractions for his American Museum, and he'd heard a rumor of a mermaid who lived on a cliff by the sea. 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. 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. One day a fisherman trapped her in his net but couldn't bear to keep her. Once there was a mermaid who longed to know of more than her ocean home and her people. RT TitanBooks: A sensuous and strange horror novella full of creeping dread and delicious gore, twisting mermaid myths into something sharp, dangerous, and hungry, for fans of Christina Henry & Eric LaRocca. However, leaving the museum may be harder than leaving the sea ever was. Barnum's American Museum as the real Fiji mermaid. Discover Christina Henry Chronicles of Alice 5 Books Collection Set - Lost Boy, Red Queen, The Mermaid, Alice, Girl in Red book, an intriguing read. 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.
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