How do you put everything back together, when everything you love has fallen apart? When Em Rogers’ is given her first after-school detention, life changes forever. If she’d known what would happen next, she would never have talked in class. After losing friends, confidence and hope, Em moves north to live with Nan. Guilty and grieving, Em keeps to herself, hoping Mum, who’s heartbroken, will visit soon. When Em finds a heart-shaped stone, everything changes. She makes friends with Jessie and Mia, and sees a mermaid in the forest. Is she real? Em can’t be sure. There’s been so much going on in her life lately. As Em helps the mermaid, a man stealing native trees from the bush reserve tries to stop her, and Mum turns up at long last. Will Em find a way to stop the thief, and pull everyone in her family back together again?