Reviews - Novella

Ripples Under The Sea
Susan Jean
Ricci

CONTEMPORARY: Planning a vacation with friends, Merilee is excited for a break from work. While visiting Canada and far away from her usual, day-to-day job as a dolphin trainer, Merilee meets Travis. Travis is a whale expert, and they discover they both live in San Diego, California. Their instant attraction and vacation mindset makes it easy for them to get caught up in the romance of it all.

PARANORMAL: The mind is a mysterious and dangerous thing. Audrey Gilbert works as a paranormal psychiatrist at the Corvey Institute in Chicago, specializing in the treatment of psychics who work for the Cognitive Mind Unit.

HISTORICAL: Gina Wallace is promised to an older and very rigid earl in a type of business transaction negotiated by her own father, as a way of ensuring that their children and her extended family will be part of the nobility. Since her father is in trade and one of the nouveau riche, marriage is the only way to ensure respectability for their family for generations down the line.

HISTORICAL: Henry Eldrick, the Earl of Huntley, was ignored his whole life. He had a ‘perfect’ older brother who was given all of the love his parents had to give. Henry was raised by others, and told often that he was useless. Emmagene Stitch, 28, is a spinster.

FANTASY: Sirena Seafair, half-human and half-Merrow, has chosen to live on land and date the man of her dreams, Jack O’Casey, in a little town called Grimm Nitch. When her mother comes back from the sea after fifteen years, she tries to force Sirena to get married to the Merrow Prince, Calder, and to live the rest of her years under the sea.

Pages