by Various Authors
Release Date: September 21st 2015
Summary from Goodreads:
Our collection includes fourteen unique mermaid tales with over 900 pages of enchanting stories from award-winning and best-selling authors!
From mermaids to sirens, Miami to Athens, dark paranormal romance to contemporary stories with steam, the fourteen award-winning and best-selling authors of the FALLING IN DEEP COLLECTION are bringing you mermaid tales like you've never seen before. Are you ready to fall in deep?
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
Immersed by Katie Hayoz
Siren's Kiss by Margo Bond Collins
To Each His Own by Anna Albergucci
Excerpt
#4
Title:
Deep Breath
Author:
J. M. Miller
Marissa
inhaled her first breath from the bailout bottle, hard and deep, and
held it as she jerked at the chains for escape. Holding a breath
while diving was not the best idea. It led to more recovery breaths,
wasting more air. But, with a limited capacity bottle, she had to
take the risk. She needed more time.
A
lock fastened the chain tight around her ankles. She hooked her
fingers into the links and yanked, but there was no way to slip the
chain off. Still falling deeper, dread and panic twisted her insides
and knocked her heartbeat loudly inside her ears. Fear overrode every
bit of calm, crushing it like a tin can.
Another
breath.
The
anchor hit bottom. Her bare feet followed a moment later, colliding
with its metal and the sand below, kicking up a cloud of sediment.
She didn’t
bother to look around. Her focus was only on the chain, but that
didn’t keep her brain from wondering what was around her. The light
from the surface was weak, dispersing through the water with only a
faint glow. It was some reassurance that there were fewer predators
around to smell the blood from the cut on her head. That light and
reassurance would be gone soon enough, though. She wouldn’t last to
see it go completely dark. She’d either be topside or dead.
Exhale.
Inhale.
Pull.
Her
heartbeat pounded on, a clock counting down to her fate. It screamed
for her the words she couldn’t
speak. It screamed for the air she couldn’t freely take.
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