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For centuries, sailors have whispered about a stretch of Pacific Northwest coastline where the sea sings after sunset. Fishing boats vanish without distress calls. People sometimes wash ashore… …and sometimes they don’t. The locals blame a mermaid. Hunters call it a siren. The Winchesters are sent to put an end to it. Only… the monster they’re hunting isn’t killing anyone. She’s protecting the coast. Hidden beneath the cliffs and the icy water lives one of the last true mermaids—a solitary creature older than most human nations, fiercely territorial and deeply distrustful of mankind. For generations she’s watched humans pollute her waters, slaughter her kind, and mistake every act of mercy for malice. She long ago decided the surface world wasn’t worth saving. Until Sam Winchester sits on the shoreline instead of pointing a gun at her. While Dean remains convinced she’s manipulating him, Sam begins noticing inconsistencies in every witness statement. The victims don’t fit a pattern. The evidence contradicts centuries of hunter lore. Slowly, cautious conversations shouted across the tide give way to quiet evenings spent together. She doesn’t understand humanity. He doesn’t understand the sea. As impossible as it seems, trust grows. Friendship follows. Then something far more dangerous. But beneath the Pacific sleeps something ancient. Far older than mermaids. Far older than angels. A primordial creature imprisoned in the deepest ocean trench has begun to stir, twisting sea life into monsters and driving humans toward the water. The disappearances blamed on the “mermaid” are merely collateral damage in a war she’s been fighting alone for centuries—a war she’s finally losing. To stop the creature, Sam and the Winchesters must descend into a conflict older than recorded history, where forgotten gods, drowned civilizations, and creatures erased from Heaven’s records still linger in the abyss.