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eBook Category: Mainstream/Romance
eBook Description: Glamour, mystery, romance, humor and webbed toes are all back in full fin as rambunctious mer-socialite Juna Lee Poinfax invades the dignified coastal world of the Bonavendier clan. Determined to chronicle mer life for her on-line journal, Juna Lee instead dives into Lilith Bonavendier's latest scheme to awaken the "inner mermaid" in an unsuspecting distant relative. World-famous author M. M. (Molly) Revere--who writes the mega-successful Water Hyacinth series, about a group of children who are secretly mermaids--is a shy, plain-footed young woman with nothing but vague clues to her extraordinary family link to the mer world. After Juna Lee--working for Lilith--lures the likable Molly to the Georgia coast, both Molly and Juna Lee find themselves in the middle of trouble. Mer-hunk Ian McEvers has come to Sainte's Pointe Island to hide his three remarkable nieces from their mysterious and possibly murderous mer-father--a man who may be more myth than reality, but dangerous either way. Molly has to face the reality of her heritage while falling in love with the enigmatic Ian and helping him protect his nieces from a danger so amazing even the Water People can barely believe it.

eBook Publisher: BelleBooks/Waterlilies Series, Published: 2004, 2004
Fictionwise Release Date: April 2008

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Words: 69363
Reading time: 198-277 min.
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ISBN: 9780967303574

"Ms. Smith has created a world of fascinating characters, intriguing plots, and tender love, and readers will no doubt brand this book as a 'keeper.'--Kari Thomas, Kari's Korner

Donald and Me

Chapter 1

I was herding Paris Hilton and her shopping entourage down a Manhattan boulevard when I broke the biggest rule of mermaid life: Don't show your tail in public. It seemed like such an innocent joke, dissing Donald Trump. But a Mer-babe of real class does not, simply does not, shout across Fifth Avenue, "Bad hair is not a symbol of self-confidence! Donald, I don't care how big a hit The Apprentice was last season, the seventies are over. Stop with the comb-over, already! Or shave your head and get some transplants!"

Doing a bitch slap on a man's hair is never a good thing, especially if a loud, beautiful redhead (me) yells at his (Donald's) hair in the company of a famous heiress (Paris, who asked for my fashion guidance after recent public fiascoes) while a crew from Entertainment Tonight happens to be filming his (Donald's) Manhattan stroll.

Because then they started filming Donald's hair.

Donald's a charming and rich man, but like most ordinary, plain-footed people on the planet he thinks he rules the whole globe when, in fact, he only rules the dry parts. The rest, which is covered in sweet, deep water, belongs to us--the Merfolk, aka Water People, aka People of Water, if you want to be politically correct about it.

Landers, one fourth. Mers, three fourths. Who's more important? Donald or me? You do the math.

Still, I shouldn't have pissed him off when he was on the verge of signing a huge New York real estate deal with Riyad bin Mahadeen, who is my great aunt Lilith's lover, one of the world's richest men, and a senior member of the worldwide Mer Council. Not that Donald knows he does business with Mers. Like all Landers, he never suspects. His hair would probably stand on end. What a mental image.

"Juna Lee Poinfax," Donald told Riyad, "needs to be locked in a room somewhere and forced to look at pictures of my hair until she apologizes to me."

Horrors. I refused.

So Donald pulled out on the multi-million-dollar deal, and Riyad banished me from polite Mer society for costing him a small fortune, and, thus, here I am, just another Mer rebel without a cause, sentenced to community service in the boondocks. Jane Austen could have written my woeful tale of class and privilege purloined, it's so sad. She was a mermaid three times removed on her father's side, you know.

Anyway, here I sit. Serving time on the beautiful but bucolic Georgia coast. What am I to do? How can I possibly preserve my Je ne sais quoi de mermaid?

I know. I'll start a diary. A really hell-raising one.

Be warned. Mermaid at work.