Hazel Bly and the Deep Blue Sea by Ashley Herring Blake

To make it worse, she has a daughter Hazel’s age, Lemon, who can’t stop rambling on and on about the Rose Maid, a local 150-year-old mermaid myth. But when Mama runs into an old childhood friend-Claire-suddenly Hazel’s tight-knit world is infiltrated. When the family arrives in Rose Harbor, Maine, there’s a wildness to the small town that feels like magic. So for the last two years, the Bly girls have lived all over the country, never settling anywhere for more than a few months. After Mum’s death, Hazel, her other mother, Mama, and her little sister, Peach, needed a fresh start. But when a kayaking trip goes horribly wrong, Mum is suddenly gone forever and Hazel is left with crippling anxiety and a jagged scar on her face. Hazel Bly used to live in the perfect house with the perfect family in sunny California. To make it worse, she has a daughter Hazel's age, Lemon, who can't stop rambling on and on about the Rose Maid, a local 150-year-old mermaid myth.“For fans of Erin Entrada Kelly and Ali Benjamin comes a poignant yet hopeful novel about a girl navigating grief, trauma, and friendship, from Ashley Herring Blake, the award-winning author of Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World. But when Mama runs into an old childhood friend-Claire-suddenly Hazel's tight-knit world is infiltrated.

When the family arrives in Rose Harbor, Maine, there's a wildness to the small town that feels like magic. After Mum's death, Hazel, her other mother, Mama, and her little sister, Peach, needed a fresh start.

For fans of Erin Entrada Kelly and Ali Benjamin comes a poignant yet hopeful novel about a girl navigating grief, trauma, and friendship, from Ashley Herring Blake, the award-winning author of Ivy Aberdeen's Letter to the World.

Hazel Bly and the Deep Blue Sea by Ashley Herring Blake