Dark and Lovely Mermaids
Author: Julie Catherine
Series: Broken Mermaids, #2
Publication date: June 11th 2024
Genres: Adult, Paranormal, Romance
Mermen. Monsters. And a lot of Manipulation. An at-odds prisoner (merman) and warden (mermaid) are about to set off to cross the deep ocean and end up running for their lives. Dive into the twisted waters of Dark and Lovely Mermaids, a forced proximity, enemies to lovers paranormal romance where the love is deep and the ocean is wild.
Ellara Merme made a bad deal. To save her friends and human sweetheart, she agreed to become a sea-slave, the lowest class in the mermaid world. It’s hell on earth, at the bottom of the ocean. A terrible choice. The only decision that’s worse, is the choice she’s about to make.
The leader of the mermaids has offered her an out: Deliver the merman prisoner to Neptune’s army and all will be forgiven. No problem. Should be an easy mission. Except…
… the deep ocean is full of sea monsters itching to make the mermaid their next meal.
… plus she might be catching feelings for the merman she’s supposed to be delivering. Could he possibly be so charming? Or are there other manipulations at play?
With danger crashing with every wave, Ellara has to decide: should she stick to the plan and save herself from sea-slavery? Or dive headfirst into the waters of romance? Can she outsmart the ocean and resist the merman’s charms? Or will she end up making an even worse bargain to survive?
Dark and Lovely Mermaids is a thrilling, loyalty-testing, romantic underwater adventure full of monsters, natural disasters and an army of mermen—an underwater story so enchanting you ¬won’t want to come up for air!
an excerpt
The porthole opened. Right on time.
The swirl of mermaids brought the old, exhausted girls off the rock wall and new, rested Merme quickly took up empty slots in the line. Silently, the two women agreed and grabbed my arms.
“Come on,” Luce said.
“I can’t.” The words floated out of me.
But they didn’t care.
The line moved forward. More girls came home. More returned to work.
My fin stayed limp in their hands.
“I wasn’t made for this,” I murmured.
The toll on my body had me destroyed. Working as a Barre?
Monotony, forever. The repetitious motion over-and-over.
An eternity of this?
Hell no.
It was nauseatingly simple, but every inch of my being hurt too badly to be mind-numbingly bored.
“I don’t belong here.” My voice eked out the sound. A whisper in the crowded room. It caught the scar-girl’s attention. The one who’d bet on me, or technically bet against me, the first day I’d arrived. Her fins were grubby and worn from a long day on the line. She abruptly stopped. Her one good eye, that vicious lens, turned on my skin. Stared me up and down, hanging between Chassie and Luce’s strongholds. The vehemence behind her gaze turned me ice cold.
“You’re no better than the rest of us, Water Nymph. Get to work.”
Julie Catherine is an author, screenwriter and playwright.
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