Beauty and The Best

In Over Her Head 

...just when you thought it was safe to fall in love...

     When Erica Peck, one terrified-of-the-ocean marina owner, finds herself at the bottom of the sea conversing with a Mer man named Reel, she thinks she's died and gone to her own version of Hell. When the Oceanic Council demands she and Reel retrieve a lost cache of diamonds from the resident sea monster in return for their lives, she knows she's died and gone to Hell.

     When they escape the monster and end up on a deserted island, she amends her opinion - she's died and gone to Heaven. 

     But when Reel sacrifices himself to allow her to return to her world, she realizes that, Heaven or Hell, with Reel, she's In Over Her Head.

Whale of a Tail

    Rod Tritone, heir to the throne of the undersea world, needs a queen capable of ruling the oldest kingdom on Earth. Someone regal, learned and of noble birth. Problem is, the only noble-born Mer princess is half-Human - and she doesn't have a clue about the non-Human part.

    Valerie Dumer has screwed up her life at every turn. Trying to please her over-protective, single mom while searching for independence, she's made more than a few bad decisions. But when her mother dies and leaves her the family business, Valerie realizes it's up to her to buckle down and get her life on track. No more excuses.

    So when a guy shows up claiming to be her destiny, she scoffs. No way. She isn't running from her responsibilities ever again--no matter how good he looks without a shirt.

    But Rod isn't going away. He can't claim his inheritance without her--and Val will lose hers if she goes with him.

    It's going to take one Whale of a Tail to get her to chuck it all and follow him off into the wild-blue under...

Catch of a Lifetime

     Logan Hardington is living the dream. Single, successful and never hard up for a date. Everything a thirty-four year old guy could want.

     Then a love child he never knew is dropped on his doorstep and suddenly Logan is trading corporate jets for model planes, incentive trips for field trips and evenings with the ladies for evenings with babysitters. What he needs is someone to keep his life on an even keel.

     Angel Tritone, Mer princess, has always been fascinated by Humans to the chagrin of her father, the High Councilman of the Mer World. So when she flees a hammerhead stalker and ends up in the arms of a Human, she fears returning home to reprisals. Plus, the Human doesn't seem to know what to do with his child. Mer or Human, a child is a child and Angel has more than enough experience to deal with two clueless Humans.

     Problem is, Logan isn't sure if Angel is just one more fish in the sea or...the Catch of a Lifetime.

Beauty and The Best

      Finalist in American Title III 

Contest Judges have said:

"It was an honor to read your work."

"You actually got me to choke up."

"You have a lovely gift for storytelling."

"The only thing wrong with this entry is that I didn't write it."

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