Legend of Mermaid Cliff by Brandon Rohrbaugh

After his crush’s mysterious death, a teen boy uncovers century-old dark secrets in his small town.

Sixteen-year-old Mark Parker is devastated when he learns that his high school crush, Veronica McBride, has been found dead at the bottom of a cliff in their small beach town of Rockport. As the last person seen with the ill-fated girl, the town becomes suspicious of Mark and he swears to find the truth—but in doing so, he uncovers unearthly and evil secrets his town has been harboring for a century.

A sinister underworld of evil is revealed in this urban magical realism debut for young adult readers.