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Last published Sat, Apr 16, 2016
Mara was a happy young mermaid, living with her parents under the water, but the world took it all away from her, and fed her parents to a nasty pair of sharks. She was forced to live with her vengeful aunt at the age of five, and to live the life she never wanted, with legs. When everything seemed to be getting worse, a figure rises from the darkness to help her with her afflictions, a boy with the name of Harris Tanner. Not only that, but clues start to appear in Mara's life, and leave her to ponder whether her parents were a meal, or if they died of other means.
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Sixteen-year-old Mara Westray has just lost her mother, and now, being shipped off to live with the father she doesn’t know is not how she imagined grieving. She’s already counting down the days until she turns eighteen and can leave the tiny island of Swans Landing. But from the moment she steps off the ferry, nothing is as ordinary as it looks. Whispers of a haunting song on the wind make her see impossible things, and she isn’t sure she can trust her judgment about what is real and what isn’t anymore. Maybe she can’t even trust her judgment about quiet Josh Canavan, whose way of speaking in riddles and half-truths only confuses her more, luring her deeper into the secrets hidden beneath the ocean’s surface. As she tries to unravel the events that led to her mom fleeing the island sixteen years ago, Mara finds that the biggest secret of all is only the beginning. SURFACING is currently available in ebook format from Amazon.com, BarnesandNoble.com, iTunes, Smashwords, and other ebook retailers. Available in audiobook from Audible, and in print at Amazon. Visit my website for more information on the Swans Landing series and where to purchase the ebooks: http://www.shananorris.com/surfacing/
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