Beauty has always been deadly and paired with intelligence it is lethal. Helen is written in our books as the face that launched a thousand ships, but they don't know how close they were to the truth. Helen is beautiful, intelligent and ruthless, a little different than history would like us to believe.

Maurea wants a place to belong and, after finally finding it with the Spirits of The Ocean, she must defend it and her loved ones against Hunters from her past. Maurea de'Laure is a powerless woman in the 1850s who has just left behind everything she knows for a chance at happiness. That is until she finds herself in the ocean at the heart of a story with burley, an old sailor pulling her to land. He introduces her to a world that had been hidden from humans where Maurea finally finds happiness. Well, as much happiness as expected with a flirtatious boy and scheming allies. When the lines between her past and future begin to blur, Maurea must decide what's more important: safety or freedom. Sometimes the only way to win is to lose; when the world is fighting against you. -Book 1 of The Spirit Series-

This is a collection of Greek Myths I thought some people would like to read for pure interest or to help them with their homework. I own nothing, all credits go to the Greeks and their interesting mythology.

Melody Hayes has always felt an urge to be near the Sea. And if she isn't she gets horribly sick until she can once again smell it's salt on the breeze. The California beaches welcome her until her adoptive parents decide to move away to the Oregon Coast. But soon after Melody is dragged under the cold frigid waves where she discovers the truth of her heritage and the expectations that await her, beneath the sea. ~ 3rd place Polaroid Awards spring 2018 ~ *Complete, but will be edited in the future*

Mermaids are the women thrown off of ships when the sailors got afraid because having a woman on the boat is bad luck. And as they sink to the bottom, legs tied together. They change slowly until they can breathe, until they can use their tied up legs to swim. And they drown sailors in revenge, luring them in by singing in their husky voices still singing from the salt water they breathe. Thank you for the prompt by kassey1265.