Adam Abel

"December 1944. The German army rampages through the frozen wastes of Belgium's Ardennes Forest. Among the many Allied prisoners taken en route, a small band of American soldiers manages to escape. Without weapons and without food, ravaged by the cold, the men are determined to make it back to their own frontline ... but as their perilous journey takes its toll, loyalties become divided and lives hang in the balance."--Container.

Readers love Sally Carmichael's young adult novels about a human girl who falls in love with a merman. No one knows that Sally Carmichael is really Simon Hayes, a bitter, serious novelist, and Simon would like to keep it that way. It all begins to crumble however when Simon has to meet the actor being considered to play the lead in the film based on the books.