the mermaid book I'm working on now is my personal favorite out of most of my mermaid ideas. the main character (loosely based of myself) is a natural born swimmer. her dad is a marine biologist and she doesn't know about her mom. never knew her, and never asked about her. just knew she wasn't around. because of her swimming skills, she joined the swim team, but left a few years later when she couldn't explain why she became faster than the coach. as it goes along, she finds out that three boys in her school were mermen sent to land to keep her safe. she distrusts them at first but quickly realizes that the ocean is much bigger than her and she needs their help to understand the merfolk ways. she finally gets to meet her mom, who is a mermaid and broke a law by having a child with a human. then she must decide whether to continue to live with her father on land or join her mother in the sea