The Innocent Mermaid: 1st half of Book 1 of 3 - Felicia & The Twins

An illustrated novel!
Mark Plimsoll wrote and illustrated, with digitally enhanced artwork, a futurist's tale about the survival of all people, perhaps all life on Earth. The fate of the future rests on the success of Amber Luna, an oceanic Mermaid raised on the Innocent River. She finds a lost orphan child, Felicia, in the endemic Wild Rice, and over ten years they learn how to live before returning to the City of Coral Arches deep in the sea. They both witness the kidnapping of The Twins, a famous singing duo from thier city, by TerraMaids, land dwelling two-legged people whose cities on the world's seashores offer all that money can buy. Felicia came from that TerraLandia, and abandons her life amongst the oceanic Mermaids.
All people use their Earrings to connect with the Knowledge Base, but Amber cannot find any information on her three friends. In the midst of ecological degradation, concerned Mermaids learn that the capital of TerraLandia sits on an island in a cold mountain lake. Amber decides to undertake the difficult journey, lose her scales and fins, become a TerraLandia resident, find her friends, stop the Anthropocene, and perhaps Save the Afterlife!
Beware, if you read this story, it might change the way you see the world, or change even the way you think. You may see this planet Earth, and the known universe, as an even MORE majestic, strange, and magical place than you ever imagined!