
A Cry for the Deep (The Three Bells #2)
One, two, three. Three tears. Three girls. Three wishes. Three debts left to be paid.
Sélie Bell is perfectly content. Both of her sisters are back home; Corliss is getting married, and Aven is becoming more like herself every day. Plus, Sélie gets to spend nearly every day with her best friend, Pearl, working at the Bells’ Apothecaire.
But when a letter arrives for Sélie asking her to bring Pearl home to the nearby island of Salille, Sélie reluctantly agrees to accompany her friend on the voyage. And when they arrive, Sélie is shocked to find out that Pearl is actually Marguerite—Salille’s runaway princess.
Before she has the chance to process this news, Sélie finds herself face to face with a mermaid who claims that Sélie must repay her late mother’s debt to the sea witch. Sélie secretly begins completing a series of tasks before the painful new scales growing on her legs overcome her and she turns into a mermaid, losing not just her life on land but any chance she had at love with a certain beloved princess.
A Cry for the Deep is the highly anticipated sequel to A Dance With Death. This gothic sapphic mashup of The Little Mermaid and Rapunzel will lure you in from the first page.
Don't miss the lush finale to The Three Bells and Aven's story in A Dream Upon Waking.
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Book details
- Author
- Amanda Linsmeier
- Imprint
- Keylight Books, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Pages
- 304
- Formats
- Paperback, Hardcover
- Series
- The Three Bells Trilogy
- Subjects
- Fiction › Romance › Fantasy
Fiction › Fantasy › Historical
Fiction › Romance › LGBTQ+ › Lesbian
Fiction › Romance › Friends to Lovers - Topics
- fairy tale retelling · little mermaid retelling · sapphic romance · friends to lovers · historical fantasy · mermaids · lost princess · family curse
- ISBN-13
- 9798887981734 (Paperback)9798887981727 (Hardcover)
About the author
AMANDA LINSMEIER is the author of her own stories, a passion rooted in a lifelong love of reading, particularly R.L. Stine novels and fairytales.
In high school, Linsmeier won the senior class vote for Most Romantic Girl.
When she’s not writing, Linsmeier can be found scream-singing her favorite songs, playing in the water, and laughing with her family.
Amanda lives in a magical place with a man who smells like maple syrup and woodsmoke, their children, a dog, and an assortment of half-feral cats.









