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Tracking the Tempest

Nicole Peeler

Mermaids and SirensParanormalFunnyFemale Lead
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Dark Water

Tricia Rayburn

When seventeen-year-old Vanessa reunites with her biological mother, she faces the dilemma of a siren's existence, that in order to survive she must endanger the lives of those she loves most.

Mermaids and SirensParanormalOcean and ShipsFemale Lead
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Forgive My Fins

Tera Lynn Childs · 333 pages

Lily Sanderson has a secret, and it's not that she has a huge crush on gorgeous swimming god Brody Bennett, who makes her heart beat flipper-fast. Unrequited love is hard enough when you're a normal teenage girl, but when you're half human, half mermaid, like Lily, there's no such thing as a simple crush.Lily's mermaid identity is a secret that can't get out, since she's not just any mermaid—she's

Mermaids and SirensFunnyFemale LeadSeries
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Mermaids and SirensFunnyOcean and ShipsFemale Lead
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Wake

Amanda Hocking · 320 pages

Mermaids and SirensParanormalLove TriangleFemale Lead
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The Secret Life of a Teenage Siren

Wendy Toliver · 304 pages

Mermaids and SirensParanormalFunnyFemale Lead
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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.

Mermaids and SirensParanormalOcean and ShipsSeries
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Tempest Rising

Tracy Deebs · 344 pages

Mermaids and SirensFemale LeadSeriesLove Triangle
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Rhapsodic

Laura Thalassa · 422 pages

Callypso Lillis is a siren with a very big problem, one that stretches up her arm and far into her past. For the last seven years she's been collecting a bracelet of black beads up her wrist, magical IOUs for favors she's received. Only death or repayment will fulfill the obligations. Only then will the beads disappear. Everyone knows that if you need a favor, you go to the Bargainer to make it

Mermaids and SirensParanormalFemale LeadSeries
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Captivate

Vanessa Garden · 278 pages

Mermaids and SirensParanormalOcean and ShipsSeries
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Of Poseidon

Anna Banks · 331 pages

Galen, prince of the Syrena, is sent to land to find a girl he's heard can communicate with fish. He finds Emma and after several encounters, including a deadly one with a shark, Galen becomes convinced Emma holds the key to his kingdom. Galen, the prince of Syrena, is sent to land to find a girl who communicates with fish. He finds Emma and after several encounters, including a deadly one wit

Mermaids and SirensOcean and ShipsFemale LeadLove Triangle
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The Moon and the Sun

Vonda N. McIntyre · 464 pages

Mermaids and SirensScientist ProtagonistFemale LeadRomance
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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.

Mermaids and SirensParanormalOcean and ShipsSeries
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The Last of the Red-Hot Vampires

Katie MacAlister · 368 pages

On a trip to England, physicist Portia Harding is stalked by a heart-stoppingly handsome maniac.Theondre North is a nephilim-the son of a fallen angel-who needs Portia's help to change his fate. Problem is, Portia's down-to-earth attitude frustrates beings from both heavenly and hellish realms-and gets Theo turned into a vampire. But at least he has Portia to satisfy his newfound hungers-and possi

Scientist ProtagonistParanormalFunnyFemale Lead
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Daughter of the Siren Queen

Tricia Levenseller · 364 pages

Alosa's mission is finally complete. Not only has she recovered all three pieces of the map to a legendary hidden treasure, but the pirates who originally took her captive are now prisoners on her ship. Still unfairly attractive and unexpectedly loyal, first mate Riden is a constant distraction, but now he's under her orders.

Mermaids and SirensFemale LeadSeriesRomance
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Emily Windsnap and the Siren's Secret

Liz Kessler · 272 pages

Emily Windsnap is finally enjoying a swimmingly peaceful life on Allpoints Island, hanging out with her mermaid bff, Shona, and her new friend Aaron (half-merperson like herself). But their idyll is cut short when Emily learns that the Windsnaps and friends must return to their old home in Brightport, where construction projects are threatening a secret mermaid community under the sea. Neptune's m

Mermaids and SirensFunnySeriesFemale Lead
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Alice at Heart

Deborah Smith · 320 pages

Mermaids and SirensParanormalFemale LeadSeries
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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?

Mermaids and SirensParanormalOcean and ShipsSeries
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Bay of Sighs

Nora Roberts · 420 pages

"Mermaid Annika is from the sea. Her purity and beauty are breathtaking, along with her graceful athleticism, as her five new friends discovered when they retrieved the fire star. Now through space and time, traveler Sawyer King has brought the guardians to the island of Capri, where the water star is hidden. And as he watches Annika in her element, he finds himself drawn to her joyful spirit. But

Mermaids and SirensFemale LeadSeriesOcean and Ships
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Tangled Tides

Karen Amanda Hooper · 324 pages

Mermaids and SirensSeriesFemale LeadOcean and Ships
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Sink or Swim

Sarah Mlynowski · 165 pages

Once again Abby and her brother Jonah go through the magic mirror in their basement, and this time they find themselves interfering in the Little Mermaid story--and needing to set things right and make sure everyone has a happy ending.

Mermaids and SirensFunnyFemale LeadSeries
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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,

Mermaids and SirensOcean and ShipsFemale LeadRomance
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Ripple

Mandy Hubbard

Mermaids and SirensParanormalFemale LeadRomance
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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.

Mermaids and SirensOcean and ShipsFemale LeadSeries
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