Readers across the world are in love with author Sally Carmichael's record breaking series of romance novels that chronicle the epic love story between a human girl and 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. But as Simon begins to fall in love with Tess Perkins, a beautiful single mother of a daughter who loves Sally Carmichael, and is forced to meet Perry Quinn, an eccentric box office star who wants to headline the movie adaptation of a Sally Carmichael book (but only if he can meet the real Sally), the author's carefully built life of anonymity starts crumbling down around him.