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Elegy

Amanda Hocking · 560 pages

Gemma must battle Penn to break the siren curse and secure a future with Alex. Gemma must battle Penn to break the siren curse and secure a future with Alex. The plot contains profanity, graphic sexual situations, and graphic violence. Book #4

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Captivate

Vanessa Garden · 278 pages

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Fish Out of Water

MaryJanice Davidson · 280 pages

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Ripple

Mandy Hubbard

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The Mermaid's Mirror

L.K. Madigan · 320 pages

Lena has lived her whole life near the beach, walking the shore, breathing the salty air, swimming in the cold water, and watching the surfers rule the waves. As her sixteenth birthday approaches, Lena vows to learn to surf. Her father forbids it. But something Lena can’t identify at first—an ancient, powerful magic—keeps drawing her to the water. One day, she finally catches sight of it: a beauti

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Crest

Emma Raveling · 502 pages

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Soul Song

Marjorie M. Liu · 336 pages

M'cal, a merman, has a voice with the immense power to uplift or destroy, but only the love of the beautiful Kitala Belle can release him from his enslavement at the hands of a witch using him for evil.

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The Unearthly

Laura Thalassa · 296 pages

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Between the Land and the Sea

Derrolyn Anderson

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Deep Betrayal

Anne Greenwood Brown · 335 pages

"As dead bodies start washing ashore, Lily and Calder realize someone's on a killing spree--and they fear it's either Calder's mermaid sisters or Lily's father."--

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The Secret Life of a Teenage Siren

Wendy Toliver · 304 pages

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Promises

Amber Garr · 285 pages

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Forgotten Sea

Virginia Kantra · 293 pages

A fallen angel and Justin, a drifter who survived a shipwreck, meet. when they discover unrecognized powers and Justin's merfolk past, requiring him to choose between his true nature or his newfound love.

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The Sapphire Talisman

Brenda Pandos · 276 pages

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Of Triton

Anna Banks · 256 pages

Emma has just learned that her mother is a long-lost Poseidon princess, and now struggles with an identity crisis: As a Half-Breed, she’s a freak in the human world and an abomination in the Syrena realm below. Syrena law states that all Half-Breeds should be put to death. As if that’s not bad enough, her mother’s reappearance among the Syrena turns the two kingdoms—Poseidon and Triton—against

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Tempest Rising

Nicole Peeler · 359 pages

Living in small town Rockabill, Maine, Jane True always knew she didn't quite fit in with so-called normal society. During her nightly, clandestine swim in the freezing winter ocean, a grisly find leads Jane to startling revelations about her heritage: she is only half-human. Now, Jane must enter a world filled with supernatural creatures that are terrifying, beautiful, and deadly--all of which pe

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Alice at Heart

Deborah Smith · 320 pages

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Tempest Rising

Tracy Deebs · 344 pages

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Tangled Tides

Karen Amanda Hooper · 324 pages

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Sea Spell

Jennifer Donnelly · 396 pages

Serafina prepares Ling, Neela, Becca and the rest of the Black Fins for war, to stop the Volneros from seizing the mer realms. But only when sea sisters Ava and Astrid find the remaining two talismans will the combined power of all six be strong enough to stop the devastating attack on the underworld. No charm will protect Ava as she faces the murderous Okwa Naholo spirits that lie deep within the

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Lucy

Kathryn Lasky

When seventeen-year-old Lucy's father, a minister, gets a prestigious summer position in Bar Harbor, Maine, her mother determines to find a rich husband for her daughter but Lucy is fascinated by the sea and a handsome ship-builder.

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In Over Her Head

Judi Fennell · 352 pages

Erica is a marina owner who can't stand the water, until she encounters Reel, a mer man who saves her from a shark attack and tries to initiate her into the delights of life under the sea. But how are they going to live together when she's terrified of the ocean and he can't survive on land?

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Seven Tears Into the Sea

Terri Farley · 288 pages

At the age of ten, Gwen Cooke had a strange encounter with a boy with dark, slightly tilted eyes. He came to her on the beach, whispered strange words in her ear, and then disappeared. Shortly thereafter, her family moved away from their seaside home and Gwen never saw the boy again. Now seventeen, Gwen is returning to her childhood home. Her nana asked her to come. But Gwen knows it's time to

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The Siren

Kiera Cass · 331 pages

"You must never do anything that might expose our secret. This means that, in general, you cannot form close bonds with humans. You can speak to us, and you can always commune with the Ocean, but you are deadly to humans. You are, essentially, a weapon. A very beautiful weapon. I won't lie to you, it can be a lonely existence, but once you are done, you get to live. All you have to give, for now,

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