Take a fish-phobic girl, divide her by one hot merman, add a splash of his crazy ex-merbitch, and you get one stinky school year.Sixteen-year-old Marina Valentine is a rule-stretcher in an uptight Texas seaside town. She's hormonally challenged, curious to a fault, hates fish, and has a dating resume that makes the queen look like a slut. It's not that guys don't ask her out. They do. She just has an unfortunate reaction to dating - uncontrollable gags. It's not exactly a turn on.One by one, her oddball friends start disappearing - much to the joy of the snobby high school royals - and Marina fears she is a walking bull's eye. Inquiries into their disappearances lead to startling, gag-worthy discoveries. Toss in an increasingly inconvenient attraction to one of the royals - who holds the key to solving the mystery...in his fin - and it's an anti-fish girl's worst nightmare come true. Soon, Marina finds herself at the center of a looming underwater war that's really going to play games with her love life.As time closes in - and the Merpeople officially come out of the ocean - Marina must choose between the lives of her friends, the future of an underwater utopia, and the life of her first love. There's just one problem. Where does a love-shy, fish-phobic, non-mergirl even begin...especially when her enemy may be the one person she trusted above everyone else?