Crest is not excited to be on their Journey: the month-long sojourn on land all teen merfolk must undergo. The rules are simple: Help a human within one moon cycle and return to Pacifica to become an Elder-or fail and remain stuck on land forever. Crest is eager to get their Journey over and done with. Humans are disgusting. They've polluted the planet so much that there's a floating island of trash that's literally the size of a country. In Los Angeles...

Keisha's thrilled to be a lifeguard at an exclusive country club, but som eof the other lifeguards are snobby. The seem more interested in acting cool than guarding lives and a little boy almost drowns. Does Keisha dare to stand up to them?

"Tells the story of Nathan, a hippopotamus whose lifelong dream is to become the lifeguard for a small pond and the neighboring animals who vacation there." --

Abby Berkeley gets a last-minute gig as a lifeguard at the Beachwood Country Club where her friends have always spent their summers. And Brody Wilson, the gorgeous senior who broke Abby's heart is also a lifeguard at the club. And the summer isn't just about buoys and lifeguarding. The club forces Abby to work a seond job as the snack bar where club members treat her with bad attitude. What does the summer hold for Abby?

Seventeen-year-old Steffie and her single mom, Barbie, have moved yet again after a married boyfriend of Barbie's left her, so when Steffie starts falling for the lifeguard at the country club where she has a summer job, she worries that she is becoming too much like her mother.