I'm excited to be a part of Katie O'Sullivan's cover reveal for Blood of a Mermaid. Plus, Katie shared an excerpt. Enjoy!
BLOOD OF A MERMAID
By Katie O’Sullivan
Coming from Crescent Moon Press, May 2014
About the Book:
Mermaid blood.
When Shea MacNamara fell into the ocean for the first time, he found he could breathe underwater. The son of a mermaid, the sea is in his blood. Literally. The best part of Shea’s new life? His girlfriend Kae, who also happens to be a beautiful mermaid.
But darkness lurks under the sea. When evil mermen kidnap Kae, the king reminds Shea that having royal blood means making tough choices.
An Arctic dungeon, a fiery plane crash, the legendary halls of Atlantis…and narwhals?
Having mermaid blood just got a lot more complicated.
Excerpt:
Shea
grimaced. He knew firsthand the damage wind could cause. He’d witnessed tornado
destruction back in Oklahoma, when he’d lost his dad and their farm. Wind could
be devastating. And deadly. He needed to focus on something else. Maybe
curtains and wallpaper weren’t such a bad thing to talk about after all. “Tell
me again about this lady who hired your mom to decorate? Why is it she can’t
pick out her own curtains?”
Hailey laughed. “Decorating is about more than curtains, you
troglodyte. It’s about creating a whole look and feel for a home.”
A deep male voice crackled through the overhead speakers in
rapid Greek, followed by English. “Attention, passengers. This is your captain.
Please keep seatbelts fastened as we try to steer clear of this turbulence and
find a pocket of better air.”
“A pocket of better air?” Hailey shook her head. “What does
that even mean?”
Chip leaned back across the aisle and grinned. “Maybe this
air is broken?” The light streaming through Hailey’s window shifted as the
plane changed direction and Chip’s grin faded. “It looks like he made a ninety
degree turn. That seems kind of drastic.”
“I’m sure the pilot’s done this a million times,” Hailey
snapped, looking out her window again. “Ooh, look at that lightning over there!
It’s like a fireworks display!”
Shea resisted the temptation to look out the window. His
stomach already felt queasy enough, and now a storm? A slow tingling sensation
engulfed his toes. “How close?”
“Oh, look out there now,” Hailey interrupted. “Water spouts!”
Shea felt the blood drain from his face. “Water spouts? Like,
tornadoes on the ocean?”
Hailey glanced back at him and gently patted his knee. “This
isn’t Oklahoma. I’m sure everything’s going to be fine,” she said as she pulled
the plane’s information card out of the seat pocket in front of her. “But I
guess it never hurts to review a plane’s emergency procedures.”
As she removed her hand from his knee to point at the
diagram, Shea felt the tingling course through his legs, zinging from his toes
up into his stomach. It was as if some switch in his body had flipped into high
gear. Sweat beaded on his forehead and dripped down his back. The air inside
the airplane cabin suddenly felt like it was clinging heavily around him, as if
it were charged with electricity and Shea was the only magnet on board. He’d
felt this exact sensation before, back at Plainville High School.
SON OF A MERMAID, book one in the series, is on sale for $2.99!
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About the Author:
Living next to
the Atlantic influences everything she writes. Her YA mermaid series begins in
Nantucket Sound with SON OF A MERMAID, and continues the undersea adventures with
BLOOD OF A MERMAID, coming from Crescent Moon Press in May 2014. Her latest
contemporary romance from The Wild Rose Press is MY KIND OF CRAZY, a Cape Cod
story of second chances and starting over.
Connect with Katie
A mermaid series - YES. Let the summer reading begin. Congrats to Katie.
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