MYTHOS
True love was
the last thing David Cooley expected to find in the Bahamas, But the moment he
laid eyes on Faren Sands, he knew he had found the girl of his dreams. How could
he know she was a mermaid from the lost island of Atlantis?
Because of the
strict laws regarding human contact, the couple flees the consequences of their
forbidden passion, struggling to survive a conflict that has been brewing
between the mermaids and sea demons for the last eleven thousand years.
Once the epic
battle begins, fate forces David to make a decision that will forever affect his
young life. Should he stick by the woman he loves, risking his mortality for a
civilization that hates him?
Excerpt:
Faren reared back and kicked Mineane with
everything she had. The demon’s eyes popped open, and she flew off her feet,
crashing headlong into the television screen. There was a loud crunch, and Mineane grew still. Her body
turned to dust, leaving her tentacles behind as the only evidence she was ever
there.
Suri looked up but she didn’t seem to care
about her dead partner. She continued to strangle David without blinking an
eye.
Faren ran up and ripped the knife from her
back, but Suri knocked her to the floor before she could stab her again. The
weapon flew from Faren’s hand and skidded across the tile out of reach. She
crawled toward it, grunting and groaning. Suri grabbed her leg, and Faren fell
flat on her face.
“No!” Faren screamed.
So
close, so close.
She reached for the knife again; her hand
grazed the handle, knocking it even farther away. As a last minute decision,
Faren attacked Suri, pounding her in the head with her tiny fists. The monster
let go of David’s throat and grabbed Faren’s hair again, yanking her to the
floor.
“Let me go!” Faren cried, latching onto the
demon’s wrists. She tried to twist her way free, but Suri’s strength outweighed
hers by ten. “No, stop!”
David punched Suri in the back of the head
once, twice. She fell to her side, but kept a good grip on Faren’s hair. David
managed to crawl out from underneath her, and he punched her in the head again.
As soon as Suri released Faren, the couple took
off for the stairway leading to the bedrooms. They didn’t get far. A pair of
the most enraged eyes they had ever seen met them halfway.
“You’re not going anywhere,” Suri croaked.
Faren couldn’t think straight. The hefty demon
blocking their path no longer existed. All she could see was the stairway,
their only lifeline to the outside world, across the room. But it seemed a
million light years away.
“You’re trapped,” Suri said, shoving a chair
out of the way.
“Come
on!” David rushed Faren to the glass patio door, slid it open, and pushed her
out onto the balcony. “We have to jump!”
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