FEATURING:
- Gay Demisexual MC!
- Fated Mates!
- Music as a Love Language!
- Found Family!
- Coney Island Setting!
- Exploration of Identity & Humanity!

Spice Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆

RAINBOW CRATE EXCLUSIVES:
- All-new Dust Jacket illustrated by @Moni_Illust!
- Cover and interior design by Rainbow Crate!
- Illustrated & Foiled Hardcase by @StarsDennn!
- Illustrated Endpapers by @Kidovna!
- Printed Edges by @Moni_Illust!
- Bonus Art Gallery by the Author!
- Bound-In Author Letter!
- Signed by the Author!

Synopsis: In Coney Island, true love rises to the surface.

Benigno “Benny” Caldera knows an orphaned Boricua blacksmith in 1910s New York City can’t call himself an artist. But the ironwork tank he creates for famed Coney Island playground, Luna Park, astounds the eccentric sideshow proprietor who commissioned it. He invites Benny to join the show’s eclectic cast and share in their shocking secret: the tank will cage their newest exhibit, a live merman stolen from the salty banks of the East River.

More than a mythic marvel, Benny soon comes to know the merman Río as a kindred spirit, wise and more compassionate than any human he’s ever met. Despite their different worlds, what begins as a friendship of necessity deepens to love, leading Benny’s heart into uncharted waters where he can no longer ignore the agonizing truth of Río’s captivity—and his own.

Rep: mlm, homoromantic/demisexual Afro-Puerto Rican MC with chronic asthma, gay scs, nonbinary sc, Black and South Asian scs, disability rep: short stature, gigantism, prosthetic and mobility aid

CW: over and internalized racism, xenophobia, homophobia, ableism, misogyny, fatphobia, character death, illness, injury/burn, alcoholism, kidnapping, imprisonment, enslavement of a fantastical being, sexual trafficking (off-page) and exploitation, violence/abuse