Pacific Tails

Releases: October 23, 2023

An unsolved murder of a mermaid queen. A shattered stone pendant cursed and lost. A kingdom’s existence in peril.

All of it, dependent on a college student and gifted swimmer, Zoe Vaughn, who thinks her life is falling apart. 

Jealous teammates have accused Zoe of using performance enhancing drugs, sinking her dreams of competing in the Olympics. Now, as their relentless bullying continues, she’s ready to uproot her life in California and move across the country.

But hours before Zoe’s flight, something happens that changes those plans forever. Sparks literally fly between her and Baxter, her mythology professor at USC, who confronts Zoe with the truth that her incredible talent beneath the water has a supernatural explanation.

Baxter declares that Zoe is the living reincarnation of Melantha - Mermaid Queen of the Pacific Ocean - who was betrayed and murdered nearly a century earlier. Moments before her death, she invoked an ancient rite of rebirth due within one hundred years. He also claims to be Melantha’s guardian - an immortal tasked with reuniting the five sacred stones that can restore Zoe as the rightful queen before her kingdom is lost forever. 

Zoe and Baxter must race against time and a battle against sinister forces who will stop at nothing to prevent the Mermaid Queen's return. With their life on the line, they need to find all five stones scattered between land and sea, solve the mystery behind Melantha’s murder, and fulfill Zoe’s destiny before her mermaid kin is condemned to enslavement for all eternity. 

Pacific Tails is a fast-paced and thrilling urban fantasy with adventure and a whodunit mystery, sprinkled with a bit of romance.