The Great Gatsby With Merpeople
Fairy Tale Retelling · Literary Romance with Speculative Elements
In the sunken city of Atlantis, where the elite measure their worth in salvaged surface-world treasure and a boy from the Deep Warrens can remake himself into anything but accepted, Jay Gatsby has spent five years building an empire for a single purpose: to win back the surface-born woman who once loved him. Every coral tower, every bioluminescent garden, every legendary tide-pool party is an elaborate lure cast upward toward the light. When Daisy Buchanan finally descends into his world, she brings the warmth he's been starving for—and the husband, the society, and the centuries of hatred between their species that will try to tear them apart. Fitzgerald told us you can't repeat the past. Gatsby disagrees. He's been planning for this, and he's willing to do whatever it takes. The question isn't whether he'll get her back. It's what he'll become to keep her.
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