Cruel and Splendid Mermaids

by Julie Catherine
(Broken Mermaids, #1)
Publication date: October 17th 2023
Genres: Adult, Dark Fantasy, Fantasy

For mermaids and humans, the rules are the same: be careful around strangers, be wary of magic and before you dive in, check what’s lurking under the waves.

Nineteen-year-old Ellara Merme’s whole life she’s known one purpose: to mate with men, to procreate, and to bear offspring to fight in Neptune’s underwater army. No problem… There’s just one hiccup. Her siren song doesn’t work.

No one can know.

She’s a broken mermaid with a faulty lure and she has only one week left to make the damaged song work. But all that can change with the ocean’s next deadly storm. Dragged from a shipwreck, mythology says a rescued sailor will be so grateful he’ll fall into anyone’s arms. Even a broken mermaid’s. Still, there’s a reason why merfolk and humans don’t get along. And a lot can go wrong when a girl from the ocean washes up on the shore.

Think mating is easy? Think again.

Cruel and Splendid Mermaids is a first-person dark and playful underwater fantasy. Book one in the Broken Mermaids series.

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Suddenly, the doors to the bar flung open.

“Who wants to make a baby?!” Acadia squealed, throwing her hands up wild. “Come and get it!” All the mens’ heads turned at once. Behind her, two other mermaids danced in, left and right. Each looking more alluring than the last.

They popped their hips.

Posed.

Quite perfect.

That was my chance.

The second they did, I scurried away from my captors. They were so entranced by the confident new arrivals they didn’t see me hide.

“Fight for our love,” Spit laughed.

“Fight for our sex!” Mercedes sang out.

“Come try, one and all!” Acadia announced. Deliberately, she dragged down the zipper of her sweater and revealed her perfect breasts. Perky, high, in beautiful rainbow shells. The whole room watched with bated breath. She dropped the shirt off her shoulders. Her tiny figure stood in perfect form. She drew them in, relishing the attention, licking her lips. When the tension was so thick no one could take another second, she grinned. “Action.”

Like a whoosh, all the fighting started again.