Torran Anderson’s Songcoming is a YA verse novel that follows two star-crossed lovers and their fight to find where they belong. Eve is a young woman betrothed to a man she thinks is repulsive. Oorin is a merman in search of his song. They both feel like they don’t fit into their respective worlds, and they take refuge in the bond they form. When Eve spends every day by the creek washing the villagers’ clothes, one moment alone with her own thoughts, she meets Oorin. He explains that he is in his Songcoming, a rite of passage that states he must live in exile until he can find his song. They are instantly drawn into each other’s lives, intrigued by what separates the land from the sea. As their connection grows, the stakes surrounding their forbidden love grow higher.