{"id":1550,"date":"2014-02-17T06:00:46","date_gmt":"2014-02-17T14:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bestfantasynovel.com\/?p=1550"},"modified":"2014-02-17T06:00:46","modified_gmt":"2014-02-17T14:00:46","slug":"son-of-a-mermaid-by-katie-osullivan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/2014\/02\/17\/son-of-a-mermaid-by-katie-osullivan\/","title":{"rendered":"Son of a Mermaid by Katie O’Sullivan"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"SonofaMermaid\"<\/a>Check out this young adult fantasy novel from Katie O’Sullivan,\u00a0Son of a Mermaid<\/em><\/a>. The sequel is coming this May!<\/p>\n

Shea MacNamara\u2019s life just got complicated.<\/p>\n

After a freak tornado devastates his Oklahoma farm, the fifteen-year-old orphan is whisked away to Cape Cod. Struggling to make sense of his new surroundings, he\u2019s trying hard to deal with feelings of abandonment\u2026 and the emotions stirred by a girl he meets along the shore.<\/p>\n

Kae belongs to an undersea world hidden from drylanders. The daughter of royal servants, she knows the planned marriage of her Princess to the foreign King should put an end to the war between the clans. But two things stand in the way of lasting peace: the ambitions of the foreign King\u2019s regent, and rumors of the Princess\u2019s bastard child.<\/p>\n

Sparks fly when she meets Shea, but could the cute drylander really be the Son of a Mermaid?<\/p>\n

Download\u00a0Son of a Mermaid<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>from Amazon<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Excerpt<\/h4>\n

The blue-green coolness swirled around him as his body tumbled down through the water, arms and legs flailing as he struggled to hold his breath. Millions of tiny bubbles of precious air traced the path of his descent, escaping from his clothing and through his nose.<\/p>\n

Eyes wide even as the water rushed past, he watched a huge school of shimmering minnows part down the middle as they swam around him, surrounding him like a silvery box. Turning his face upward to the surface, he could see the blue sky receding further and further as he sank deeper into the water\u2019s depths.<\/p>\n

His throat and lungs burned from the effort of holding his breath. Darkness pressed hard against his eyes, and swirls of strange colors danced in front of him as his whole body strained against the lack of oxygen.<\/p>\n

I need to breathe<\/em>, he thought wildly, his whole body feeling like it was on fire. I can\u2019t hold out much longer.<\/em> His feet finally hit the mucky bottom with a thud, coming to a stop as the mud swirled around his legs.<\/p>\n

There, hovering before him in the water, swam a beautiful woman with flowing golden hair\u2026and a green fish tail that sparkled with golden flecks among the scales.<\/p>\n

A mermaid.<\/em><\/p>\n

Her big green eyes looked so familiar, like the ones he saw in the mirror every morning. She smiled at him, reaching out to take his hand. His head pounded as searing pain ripped through his throat, as if his entire body would tear apart any second from the effort of holding his breath.<\/p>\n

The mermaid squeezed his hand and nodded. The pain receded as Shea stared into her eyes, lost in their green depths. As she nodded to him again, he opened his mouth to exhale the stale air that pounded like a jackhammer in his lungs. Large bubbles rushed to the surface as he struggled to breathe, but there was no air to be had. Only salty ocean water rushing in to fill his mouth, his lungs, his body…<\/p>\n

Shea woke with a start, clawing at the sheets and disoriented for a full minute before remembering where he was. At the Hansen\u2019s house. Because his own home \u2013 the farm where he\u2019d lived and worked all his life \u2013 was gone, swept away and crushed by the freak tornado.<\/p>\n

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Download\u00a0Son of a Mermaid<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>from\u00a0Amazon<\/a>\u00a0to find out what happens next.<\/p>\n

Find more from Katie on\u00a0her\u00a0blog<\/a>\u00a0or her\u00a0website<\/a>, or follow her on\u00a0Facebook<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Check out this young adult fantasy novel from Katie O’Sullivan,\u00a0Son of a Mermaid. The sequel is coming this May! Shea MacNamara\u2019s life just got complicated. After a freak tornado devastates his Oklahoma farm, the fifteen-year-old orphan is whisked away to Cape Cod. Struggling to make sense of his new surroundings, he\u2019s trying hard to deal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1551,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,592,593,596],"tags":[640,642,671,678,690,716,730],"class_list":["post-1550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fantasy","category-ya","category-ya-recommended-for-boys","category-young-adult-books","tag-fairy-tale","tag-fantasy","tag-mermaids","tag-mythology","tag-paranormal","tag-urban-fantasy","tag-ya"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}