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Joy developed an ability in her late teens and early 20’s that most women don’t have: she can read auras… and she can see ghosts. When she’s drunk or stoned. All the better if both. One night, after tying-one-on, Joy feels empathy for one ghost in particular: Ethel, a girl-ghost who haunts a movie theater. In an act of impulse, Joy throws a rock at the theater marquee, busts a dozen light bulbs, startles the ghost, and sets in motion her portal fantasy adventure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Soon she finds herself transported to an alternate underwater Earth populated by sea monsters, plesiosaurs, giant prehistoric lobsters, telepathic Naiads, and Mermaids dwelling within their traveling, ocean floor, Temple.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her body begins to change. She is taken captive but escapes. She becomes gravely injured in a shark attack and hides out as a stowaway in a Naiad living quarters. They assume she is a fellow Naiad (from another Temple perhaps (?) her clothes are<\/strong><\/em> incredibly weird after all) and so, they strike a bargain: help them in their labors to get ahead in their work quotas, and in exchange they’ll help her escape the Temple, hopefully, without incident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thus begins “The Naiad’s Necklace,” a funny and suspenseful tale of building friendships and avoiding the gaze (literally) of a Temple full of (mostly) asshole mermen. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

How will Joy take to a booze and caffeine withdrawal? Not to mention a hardcore seafood-cleanse. How do her roommates react to her singing heavy metal lyrics? She has to admit: growing fins and fangs in stressful situations is pretty f-ing rad. Will Joy eventually turn into a mermaid? The new gills in her neck and the colorful scales growing on her shin points to “probably,” unless she can escape and find a portal back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These questions and many other mermaid anatomical questions that nobody wanted answered, get answered. The Temple of the Mermaid series is an adult fantasy riot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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