Alexander wishes he could call himself ordinary. But after he loses control of himself at school and magically hurts his bully by accident, he cannot. He begins to believe that he must be cursed . . . until the most unusual marvel happens. A second winter emerges from where there should have been spring. A girl rises from a freezing lake. And Alex falls into it, awakening to an underwater world ruled by a wicked king who isn’t at all the rightful one, but an impostor: Gothar.
And it is Alex who must pair with a mysterious mermaid to end Gothar. Not because he’s some chosen one, but because it is his only way to go home, back to Earth, back to Welcher. And to do that, he must embrace the part of him he is most afraid of: his powers.
Can Alex bring hope. . . . even though there’s little left in him?
