sirens (mythology)

Emily Windsnap enjoys a peaceful existence with her fellow merpeople friends on Allpoints Island, but when she learns that they need to return to Brightport, where construction projects threaten a secret mermaid community, Neptune asks the Windsnap family to solve the problem.

A member of the sisterhood of sirens deadly to humans, Kahlen must live a lonely life following the rules that prohibit her forming close bonds with humans and though she has lived by these rules for years now, patiently waiting for the life she can call her own, when Akinli, a human, enters her world, she can not bring herself to live by the rules anymore.

Retells the part of Homer's "Odyssey" in which Odysseus meets Circe and struggles against the Sirens and Scylla and Charybdis.

Years ago, Kahlen nearly drowned, but the Ocean itself rescued her, on the condition she serve as a Siren for a period of time to repay her debt. Her voice now lures sailors to their doom, but Kahlen spends time on land, longing for the day when she can speak normally again and live, laugh, and love. Then she meets Akinli, the boy of her dreams, and she decides to risk the wrath of the Ocean in order to follow her heart.

Years ago, Kahlen was rescued from drowning by the Ocean. To repay her debt, she has served as a Siren ever since, using her voice to lure countless strangers to their deaths. Though a single word from Kahlen can kill, she can't resist spending her days on land, watching ordinary people and longing for the day when she will be able to speak and laugh and live freely among them again. Kahlen is resigned to finishing her sentence in solitude... until she meets Akinli. Handsome, caring, and kind, Akinli is everything Kahlen ever dreamed of. And although she can't talk to him, they soon forge a connection neither of them can deny... and Kahlen doesn't want to. Falling in love with a human breaks all the Ocean's rules, and if the Ocean discovers Kahlen's feelings, she'll be forced to leave Akinli for good. But for the first time in a lifetime of following the rules, Kahlen is determined to follow her heart.

Relates, in graphic novel format, some of the common characteristics of the mermaids of folklore, as well as telling the tale "The mermaid's comb," in which a mermaid gives her comb and special powers to a man who helps her, and describes other mermaid tales.

"Lolly Salt's three sisters are sirens--young women who lure ships to their doom--and as Lolly's 13th birthday approaches she's about to become one too. But when it becomes clear that someone in town knows the Salt girls secret, Lolly sets out to learn how this happened to her family and if she can prevent it"--Provided by publisher.

Reuniting with his New York bandmates and the mysterious Lennox Gates to search for Ridley, who has gone missing, Link travels to the deep south to find a menagerie of imprisoned Casters and confront an evil force.

Returning to Boston for her senior year of high school after the sudden death of her older sister, seventeen-year-old Vanessa must ward off her transformation into a full-fledged siren while also trying to handle college applications, a long-distance relationship, and the mysterious return of the sirens she thought she had killed.

"When Ridley goes missing after a car crash, Link, his bandmates, and Lennox Gates, joined by Liv and John Breed, embark on a search for the Siren, taking them to Mississippi, where they encounter legendary blues guitarist Robert Johnson, and then to New Orleans, where an evil threatens to destroy them all."--.