Dark Depths series by Lani Lenore (#1, novella)
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Overview: Lani Lenore is a writer of gothic horrors and dark fantasies. In addition to rewriting well-known fairy tales with a twist, she also writes original stories in a style she calls ‘dark fairy tale’, which uses fantasy elements to build horror stories. Most of her tales, though horrific at times, have a subplot of romance. She loves to keep readers on the edge of their seat, spook them, and immerse them in worlds of beauty and terror.
She currently lives in Tennessee with her husband, two dogs, and four cats.
Genre: Fantasy
1. Dark Depths
Mermaids are soulless, flesh-eating monsters of the sea, wicked in all ways—but some are born with more humanity.
Nathaniel Thomas believes in monsters. He’s seen his share since joining the pirate crew of the Blood-Red Siren. Tales are rampant, especially of mermaids—the deep sea nymphs. With their hypnotic songs, they lure ships to crash and then feast on those aboard, stealing the seed from a man’s loins while drinking down his blood. But Nathan has learned not to believe in things he hasn’t seen with his own eyes.
All of that seems foolish when he witnesses hideous, scaly-skinned abominations peeling the flesh from his shipmates, but Nathan manages to avoid death. He is rescued by a similar creature, and though he is wary of her, he soon finds that she is nothing like her kin.
He calls her his Treasure, and she is beautiful beyond anything he’s ever seen. There is goodness in her. He knows they do not belong together, even if she does not. She will not leave him. Likewise, he cannot purge her from his thoughts.
Nathan is introduced to truths he never would have believed, to a love he never thought possible, and to a war that he could not anticipate. There are secrets and horrors in the dark depths, and he is out to uncover them, even if the truth costs him his own humanity.
Daughters of the Deep
With voices said to ensnare sailors and lead ships to their doom, mermaids have earned a reputation as monsters of the depths. All have heard stories, but few know the truth of the deep sea nymphs who hunt on the vast sea, preying on human flesh in order to meet their ends.
A once glorious underwater kingdom is in decay after the death of its king—an old god—and the only male among them. The daughters of the deep sea have turned to humans as a means to keep their race alive, and therein lies the taint. More and more have been born of improper breeding. Half human and half nymph, they appear far too human to be useful as anything but slaves.
In a time before she was called Treasure, she is nameless, Innominata. She is a mere prisoner in the kingdom until an unlikely friendship draws her to the world above—to learn the truths of her culture, to the knowledge of a lost power, and to a man who doesn’t know she exists.
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