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by Maureen A. Miller!
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adventure with a touch of romance. where an accident in the Atlantic Ocean
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Title: Beneath
Author: Maureen A. Miller
Release Date: March 26, 2018
Publisher: Self-published
Genres: YA
Page Count: 340
Format: Print and digital
Synopsis:
An overnight fishing trip on the Atlantic Ocean…
It was Stella Gullaksen’s final break before starting her freshman year
at college. Joining her best friend, Jill, and Jill's family aboard the
STARKISSED, Stella wakes to a violent storm that capsizes the boat over a
hundred miles off the New Jersey shore.
As the waves
haul her under Stella knows that she is going to die. Instead, an unusual
current drags her deep into the underwater canyons of the Atlantic
Ocean. Powerless against the raging waters, she is suddenly sucked into a
ventilated cave. One by one, Jill and her family also emerge in the sunken
cavern.
With only a
faulty diving flashlight to keep oblivion at bay Stella and her best friend's
brother, Colin, search the cave in hope of finding a way back to the surface.
What they discover, however, is that they are not alone. There are other
survivors in this subterranean grotto–survivors spanning decades of maritime
disasters.
Will this
discovery prove salvation, or have they all been condemned to the same fate? A
grim finale at the bottom of the sea?
On an
alliance forged by friendship and attraction, Stella and Colin battle to escape
the danger that lies beneath.
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BENEATH Excerpt
Copyright
© 2018 Maureen A. Miller
Colin moved, shaking Stella from her
daydream.
“Come on. Stay close,” he instructed.
Close. There was no problem with that
command. There was no way she was being left behind in this subterranean abyss.
As they started forward, her toe
clipped Colin’s heel causing her to stumble and plant a palm on his back for
support.
“A little too close,” Colin muttered
over his shoulder.
Stella’s hand snapped back. It wasn’t
the first time she had inadvertently touched her best friend’s older brother.
In high school, she had taken many
fishing trips with the Wexlers. It was common for them to spend the night out
at sea so that Jill’s dad could reach the best fishing spot. The cabin was
tight on the STARKISSED, and normally Colin would sleep on the bench seat
beside the kitchen table while the three females monopolized the v-shaped bed.
On one occasion she, Jill, and Anne
Wexler retired into the cabin for the night, while Colin and his father
remained up on deck. Stella and Jill took the bunk on one side of the V, and
Anne slept on the other. At some point the boat pitched slightly on a wave and
Stella rolled off her tight perch into the gap between the mattresses.
Expecting to hit the floor she instead landed on something pliant. Something
strong. Something that smelled like the sea and Irish Spring.
Stella was a junior at the time. She
had already been kissed and maybe pawed a little, but she still had very little
knowledge of what a man felt like. Now she was pinned to a wide chest with her
legs twined between his. Planting her palms on the carpet, she clambered for
balance. Heat rushed to her cheeks and it seemed every move she made to
dislodge herself only made matters worse.
Colin didn’t say a word. Powerful arms
hefted her back onto the mattress and just like that, his silhouette climbed
through the hatch and back onto the deck.
Ever since that incident she had a
tough time looking him in the eye. It wasn’t just because of the awkwardness of
the situation. The truth she concealed was that she had a big-time crush on her
best friend’s brother.
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