When Tova Sullivan s husband died two years ago, she talked her way into a job mopping floors at Sowell Bay Aquarium. Keeping busy helps her cope, which she s been doing since her eighteen-year-old son, Erik, mysteriously vanished. Thirty and headlining for washed-up band Moth Sausage, Cameron Cassmore has some serious growing up to do.
Then the discovery of an old class ring sends him on a mission to Sowell Bay to track down the father he s never known. Marcellus, a 'prisoner' at the Aquarium, wouldn t lift one of his eight tentacles for his human captors until he forms a friendship with the cleaning lady. Keenly observant, but with time running out, Marcellus deduces that Cameron is a missing key to what happened the fateful night of Erik s disappearance.
Now Marcellus must use every trick his old, invertebrate body can muster to unearth the truth for Tova before it s too late . . .
