Taking his self-built one-man submarine in search of his father’s disappearance, 18-year-old Michael finds Atlantis, the underwater world of the merfolk. There he falls in love with the mermaid Kaphia, a cute anthropologist who yearns to understand human love. Initially awed by their advanced technology, Michael soon recognizes the merfolk’s dangerous undercurrent of anti-human sentiment, threatening not only his life, but all of humanity’s. Together Michael and Kaphia team up to find a solution to human induced climate change in order to stop the merfolk from wiping out our species.

Philip Levin is the author of over thirty published books and hundreds of articles, stories, and poems. For over forty years, he worked as an emergency physician and employed his knowledge in missionary work around the world.