A fantasy based on Scottish folklore. About a hundred years ago, they say, there was a mermaid who ruled the cold, wild sea that washes around the northern lands,' Hunter begins, and then tells of the one foolish, stubborn fisherman who refused to believe in the mermaid's power. Eric Anderson learned his lesson the hard way: near-death with all of his men and forced into exile, because now he could never be safe again in local waters.