Verona is a bottom feeder. She is the one mer in her clan who is considered the ugliest and least intelligent. Growing up with the constant bullying and abuse wasn't the worst of what her kind had in store for her. At seventeen years old, she must now endure "The Reckoning." The scales will measure her worth to her clan. Will she endure thirty days as a land-walker to gather information and knowledge to appease her clan and return a valued member? Will she wait three years, until she is twenty, and find a mer of her kind to accept her and marry her? Or will she suffer exile for the rest of her life? * * * All summer long, join the authors of the "Falling in Deep Collection" for unique tales of creatures from the deep From mermaids to sirens, Miami to Athens, dark paranormal romance to contemporary stories with steam to folktales, the fifteen award-winning and best-selling authors of the "Falling in Deep Collection" are bringing you mermaid tales like you've never seen before. Every week beginning May 26th, 2015, we'll be releasing one unique, never-before-published novella Each novella will feature our favorite creature of the deep: mermaids. The Falling in Deep Collection (May - September 2015 Releases) Scales by Pauline Creeden Ink: A Mermaid Romance by Melanie Karsak Of Ocean and Ash by A. R. Draeger Deep Breath by J. M. Miller At the Heart of the Deep by Carrie Wells The Mermaid's Den by Ella Malone The Water is Sweeter by Eli Constant The Glass Mermaid by Poppy Lawless An Officer & a Mermaid by Blaire Edens How to be a Mermaid by Erin Hayes Cold Water Bridegroom by B. Brumley A Beyond the Sea Prequel by Emily Goodwin Immersed by Katie Hayoz Siren's Kiss by Margo Bond Collins To Each His Own by Anna Albergucci Never miss a release Keep in touch with us online at http: //eepurl.com/bdRtbD