Napoli divides her novel into five parts, each describing Sirena's moral growth. Deception, Honesty, the Years, Immortality, and Choices chronicle Sirena's struggle to best her destiny.

As an adolescent imagining her future, preparing to follow the path all Sirens must take to attain immortality, Sirena, like her sisters, thought nothing of the consequences that might accompany her bid for immortality. When she realizes that by her action others, innocents, might die, she makes the conscious choice to deny herself. She chooses to live alone, rather than lose her soul. Her years with Philoctetes bring happiness but an awareness that love may not be forever.

When she offers her own immortality for that of her love and finally must bow to the forces that are stronger than her love for Philoctetes, Sirena moves beyond herself into legend.

The struggles of young adults to make the right choices...