Christine "CC" Canady is an Air Force Sergeant who wishes for some magic in her life.  She has no idea how much magic she will get when on her 25th birthday she drunkenly summons the goddess Gaea and asks for a little magic.

CC's wish is soon granted when she finds the plane she is travelling in crashing into the ocean and her body being dragged under.

Pulled down beneath the waves CC comes face to face with the mermaid Undine.  But as shocking as that experience is she is not prepared for the sudden switch in places when she finds herself face to face with herself.

Stranded back in the distant past CC soon finds herself face to face with the reason Undine was so eager to leave her body and world.  Sarpedon...Undine's evil brother who is determined to make the mermaid his own. 

Fleeing from him CC finds sanctuary on land when Gaea turns into a human.  If she finds true love on the land the spell will be complete.  But until that time CC must return to the sea every third night or she will die. 

Helped to the land by Dylan, a merman who has followed her and, like Gaea, knows that she is not Undine, CC finds further help in the form of Sir Andras, a knight who pulls her from the waters and leads her to the nearby monastery.  It seems from the start that Sir Andras is the ideal candidate for CC to fall in love with and complete the spell.

But CC finds that there is danger within those walls too and she must keep up the pretence of a loss of memory of risk being taken for a witch. 

CC soon finds herself falling in love, not with Sir Andras, but with Dylan who watches over her from the waves and answers her call when she returns to the waters.  But Dylan is half mortal and no match for Sarpedon and the more time they spend together the more they risk endangering each other. 

With the help of her new friends CC hopes that she can finally find a place to belong.  But how long can she hold onto that place and can tragedy be averted in time for her and Dylan to build a life together?

This is the first book in the Goddess Summoning Series by P.C. Cast and if the others are as good as this one it promises to be a wonderful collection.  Fast paced with some excellent plot twists Ms Cast brings the world under the oceans to life and brings a little magic into the lives of every reader who opens this book.

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