Yo Ho Ho and Buttered Rum Sundae will be released sometime in the summer of 2022. This is the 2nd tale with Sirena a Jack from Mermaid Cove and Seaside Sundaes.
(THIS IS IN JACK'S POV)
This week's SNIPPET:
She didn’t wear her lace gloves to hide her webbed hands when alone in his company. He loved that she trusted him in this way. She thought the webbing proved a defect, but he loved her and everything about her, webbed fingers, toes, and all.
“I look forward to it,” he told her with a tilt of his lips. He then turned toward Maori Seafair. “It was nice
to meet you finally. You have a lovely daughter. You should be proud.” With those words, he slipped out the door.
As he strode down the walk and farther from Smuggler’s Den, the sea breeze felt lighter in his lungs as if the hurt feelings and regrets clogging the shop had stifled the air they’d been breathing.
JUST A LITTLE MORE...
He glanced over his shoulder at the small shop filled with trinkets from the sea, ice cream delights, as well as memories of long chats with Sirena. She rarely spoke about her mother, and he sensed she had not forgiven her for choosing the sea over family. Hopefully, with Maori’s return, Sirena will find closure or maybe even mend their relationship altogether.
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Yo Ho Ho and Buttered Rum Shortbread, a delectable summer short story, where the recipe for mayhem will stir up all kinds of trouble for Jack and Sirena in Grimm Nitch.
Sirena's mother returns home after abandoning her family fifteen years prior, with a Merrow Prince, expecting Sirena to leave her home to live with him beneath the sea.
Meeting another Merrow is surreal but swimming away to live happily ever after in an ocean world is not as sweetly tempting as Sirena once dreamed. Where the mer-prince goes, Jack cannot follow. Giving up the life she has with Jack is like giving up sweets—forever.
At the Buccaneer Bash, the prince will reveal what he's cooked up for Sirena, but he's about to underestimate Jack's skills, who has no trouble preparing a plan of his own.
Darrien Andros, a gryphon sworn to protect humans is cursed to live forever, safeguarding the items in the Museum of Cursed Antiquities. His mundane life between the world of the living and turning to stone as the sun rises is disrupted when a thief attempts to steal Hecate's Stone. He cannot eliminate her for her thieving ways. Not when she resembles his dead wife.
Cali Angelis, a thief for hire, needs Hecate's stone for her client. Only Darrien makes her question her client's motives. She'd like to think Darrien delusional, but she's seen the unbelievable.
Will they unravel the mysteries behind the stone before history repeats itself?
Mermaid Cove and Seaside Sundaes
Short story FROM THE WILD ROSE PRESS' ONE SCOOP OR TWO SERIES!
One selfless act as a teen unfairly caused Sirena Seafair to forfeit her ability to shift into a mermaid.
Fifteen years later, her mundane life is about to change when Jack O'Casey arrives in the Irish town of Grimm Nitch and opens his restaurant, Mermaid Cove. The man is bound and determined to make Sirena his no matter what. But if by chance, Sirena can find a way to reclaim her life as a mermaid, will she leave Jack and her human life behind in exchange for a life beneath the sea? Or will surrendering her heart to love be the magic she's been waiting for all along?
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Nice little bit of insight. Lovely snippet.
Jack might be wrong. It sounds good to reunite with family, but old tensions are sure to reemerge.
He must be truly special to her–that she bears her hands to him, webbing and all. Her challenge is pretty big–forgiving her mom. 🙂 Good writing, Karen!