Tempest Maguire wants nothing more than to surf the killer waves near her California home; continue her steady relationship with her boyfriend, Mark; and take care of her brothers and surfer dad. But Tempest is half mermaid, and as her seventeenth birthday approaches, she will have to decide whether to remain on land or give herself to the ocean like her mother. The pull of the water becomes as insistent as her attraction to Kai, a gorgeous surfer whose uncanny abilities hint at an otherworldly identity as well. And when Tempest does finally give in to the water's temptation and enters a fantastical underwater world, she finds that a larger destiny awaits her-and that the entire ocean's future hangs in the balance.

As her seventeenth birthday approaches, half-mermaid Tempest Maguire will have to make a decision. Stay on land? Or give herself to the ocean? The pull of the water becomes as insistent as her attraction to Kona, a gorgeous surfer whose uncanny abilities hint at an otherworldly identity as well. And when Tempest does finally give in to the water's temptation, she finds that a larger destiny awaits her-and that the entire ocean's future hangs in the balance.

Where are our Children rolls on to it's devastating climax. After much isolation the game's surviving players reunite only to see two more players fall for the final time. In the meantime, a Tempest of unequaled power and strength rises over Atlanta and adds more misery to the city's weary residents. The Zero Hour is long past; Scar’s destructive trap has been sprung and now an unexpected event from Mother Nature, an Earthquake, has caused a bad situation to become far worse. As a result, all sides in this conflict have taken heavy losses. The surviving combatants of 411: Special Agent Christopher Prince, Serena Tennyson, Doctors Angel Hicks Dupree and her estranged husband Seth Dupree, Thomas Pepper, Roxanne Sanchez and Louis Keaton lives have all been changed forever. And now let the reckoning begin—yet again. Two of the anointed will meet their prophesized fate, two more will have the fires of hell burning inside them, while the other three will face a new crisis that make them wish for their own deaths before this game is at it's end. And then the lost ones will fall at last. A tempest will rise in their place. And Atlanta will burn.

The start of a brand new urban fantasy set in small town maine where everything is not as it should be. . . Living in small town Rockabill, Maine, Jane True always knew she didn't quite fit in with so-called normal society. During her nightly, clandestine swim in the freezing winter ocean, a grisly find leads Jane to startling revelations about her heritage: she is only half-human. Now, Jane must enter a world filled with supernatural creatures alternatively terrifying, beautiful, and deadly- all of which perfectly describe her new "friend," Ryu, a gorgeous and powerful vampire. It is a world where nothing can be taken for granted: a dog can heal with a lick; spirits bag your groceries; and whatever you do, never-ever-rub the genie's lamp. If you loveSookie Stackhouse, then you'll want to dive into Nicole Peeler's enchanting debut novel.

Class, race, and sexuality converge in this page-turning story of desire, jealousy, and survival. Set in west Philadelphia in the early sixties, Tempest Rising tells the story of three sisters, Bliss, Victoria, and Shern, budding adolescents raised in a world of financial privilege among the upper-black-class. But their lives quickly unravel as their father's lucrative catering business collapses. When their father disappears suddenly, he is presumed dead, sending their mother spiraling into an apparent breakdown. The girls are wrenched from their mother and dumped into foster care in a working-class neighborhood in the home of Mae, a politically connected card shark. Though Mae lavishes affection onto her foster children, she is abusive to her own child, Ramona, a twenty-something stunning beauty. As Ramona struggles with Mae's abuse and her own hatred for the foster children, she also tries to keep at bay a powerful attraction she has for her boyfriend's father. In Tempest Rising, McKinney-Whetstone richly evokes the early 1960s in west Philadelphia in this story of loss and healing, redemption, and love.

Jane True has always felt like a misfit in Rockabill. With a shady family background and a tragic past, she's used to being rejected by so-called 'normal' society. But she's about to discover there's more to this town than meets the eye. During her nightly swim in the ocean, a grisly find leads Jane to some startling revelations about Rockabill - and about her own dark heritage. Behind everyday life, she uncovers a world filled with strange, powerful (not to mention alluring) supernatural beings. It's a world both frightening and deadly. But it could be just what Jane's looking for . . .

Half-human, half-mermaid Tempest must again choose between land and sea as two boys vie for her affection and the evil sea witch returns.