A Cry for the Deep

By Amanda Linsmeier

One, two, three. Three tears. Three girls. Three wishes. Three debts left to be paid.

S lie Bell is perfectly content. Both of her sisters are back home; Corliss is getting married, and Aven is becoming more like herself every day. Plus, S lie gets to spend nearly every day with her best friend, Pearl, working at the Bells' Apothecaire.

But when a letter arrives for S lie asking her to bring Pearl home to the nearby island of Salille, S lie reluctantly agrees to accompany her friend on the voyage. And when they arrive, S lie is shocked to find out that Pearl is actually Marguerite--Salille's runaway princess.

Before she has the chance to process this news, S lie finds herself face to face with a mermaid who claims that S lie must repay her late mother's debt to the sea witch. S lie secretly begins completing a series of tasks before the painful new scales growing on her legs overcome her and she turns into a mermaid, losing not just her life on land but any chance she had at love with a certain beloved princess.

A Cry for the Deep is the highly anticipated sequel to A Dance With Death. This gothic sapphic mashup of The Little Mermaid and Rapunzel will lure you in from the first page.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FD346LFV
• ISBN13: 9798887981727
• Release Date: June 2026
• Publisher: Keylight Books
• Length: 304 Pages