Waiting on Wednesday 12/1

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly event hosted by Jill from Breaking the Spine, and specifically spotlights upcoming novels we can't wait to read. As always, there are some amazing upcoming books, but this week I'm particularly excited for...

Title: Mermaid
Author: Carolyn Turgeon
Release Date: March 3, 2011
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group

The story of two very different women, one mortal, one mermaid, and the clash between worlds best kept apart... It is a cold day at the end of the world when a young woman, a princess in hiding, looks out across a Northern sea and sees something she could not have seen. It looks...it can't be. It looks like a mermaid's tail.
And, as she looks more closely, she sees that the mermaid is dragging a drowning sailor in her arms. Because, only hours before, another princess, the daughter of the sea queen, has decided to risk everything and take a look at the world above the sea: the world of mortals. And there she finds a storm, a shipwreck, a sailor, and sets in train events which will change both women's worlds for ever.

Taken from Goodreads.

I had the hardest time picking just one book to feature as my WoW this week, but I have to say that the stories of mermaids never get old for me. Mermaid sounds delightfully fresh and exciting, but still true to the classic sort of land vs. sea tale. Plus, Mermaid has an absolutely drool-worthy cover. The colours, the font...all of it...I'm sold on this story of mermaids, princesses, wars between different worlds and deep sea adventures (and it totally keeps with my love of water, eh?!) What do you think, and what are you waiting on this week?