Lullaby picks up just after Wake ends with Harper and Alex desperate to find Gemma and bring her home safely, as Gemma struggles to retain her humanity while adjusting to her new life and all of her strange powers, as well as the terrifying desires and needs that come with being a siren. Read More »

It is a big day for Serafina, but as she surfaces from her strange dream, there is a haunting feeling that remains with her. Perhaps it is just normal nerves on the morning of her betrothal combined with the pressures of being a mermaid princess, but the day is weighing heavy upon her. Yet, when she looks to her mother’s face at the finale of her songspell, she hears the thunder of applause and sees pride shining in her mother’s eyes. It is a golden moment she will remember forever-the moment just before an assassin’s arrow pierces her mother’s chest. Read More »

Larry and his girlfriend are on vacation in Colonial Bay when he hears screams from the dark ocean in front of his hotel. Though he rushes out to help a young woman, he arrives too late and sees her just before a shark-like thing drags her under. Read More »

Evie (rhymes with heavy) McFagan is the local funeral director in Pawtuxet Village, Rhode Island. She is short, overweight, and a semi-functioning alcoholic mother with a mouth to make sailors blush. Her husband, Patrick, honestly loves her despite all this. He just wants her to not drink around their wee daughter Savannah.
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Sea dragoness Sophia Aleahar is growing desperate after being rejected by possible suitors. When her latest conquest refuses, she decides to face him personally and try to convince him to reconsider, but when she’s taken hostage by shark-shifter pirates, her focus changes to survival.
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When Spencer Foster realizes how far his abusive father is willing to go to keep his son from leaving their swampland home, it is already too late. Waking with a shotgun blast echoing in his ears, Spencer finds his life is changed completely and forever. He hopes his fiancée will accept him in this new, misshapen form, but he has to make a long and difficult journey to find out.

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Undertow is J.M. Snyder’s contribution to the Del Fantasma Series. The Del Fantasma is a bar where all manner of paranormal happenings seem to occur and the Undertow is a drink they serve there. In Undertow we are introduced to Derek and Kellen a pair of merrows raised in a pod off the point of Loma Vista. A merrow being more human and less mermaid are able to live in the cresting waves of the ocean as well as take to land. In human form they shed their scales, gills and fins with the assistance of a talisman that they wear.

It was apparent from early on that Kellen loved Derek deeply. Derek loved humans and thought of nothing other then joining the human world permanently. When he saw Tad sitting on the beach he fell in love and that desire became a reality.

Undertow is a fantastical story ripe with passion and jealousy. It intertwines within its pages the feelings some of us have that how we are born is not who we truly are. I found myself delighted with the unique characters and surroundings. If you would like to try an Undertow the recipe can be found at the end of the book.

Book Stats:

• e-book, digital format
• Publisher: Aspen Mountain Press
  
• Language: English
• ISBN: 978-1-60168-073-0

This review is of the first version of this story which is no longer for sale. The book has been released as Undertow and you can purchase a copy of it by clicking here.