Selinuntius, the last siren, has lived apart from her kind for ages after being stranded while searching for Persephone. Every attempt by the nearby village to kill her has failed — her song always reaches those who approach her island before they can act. Then a girl named Melos rows toward the island alone, injured hands on the oar, smiling. What Selinuntius assumed was another effortless victim slowly becomes something stranger: Melos, it turns out, cannot hear the song at all.