Have you ever seen a real, live mermaid?

Andrew Cordell has! For a few moments, anyway. It happened while he was diving in the Bahamas. And it changed his life.

Andrew, a powerful and charismatic state governor had been emotionally devastated by his wife's death four years earlier. Now, suddenly, his heart felt alive again-because of this mermaid.

In reality, she was a swimming instructor and aspiring marine biologist named Lindsay Marshall, who'd been hired to play a mermaid for a television commercial. And she did it well enough to convince at least on unsuspecting diver!

Andrew was completely enchanted when he saw her. Like a fairy-tale prince. Like a shipwrecked sailor lured into love....