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They sacrificed the wrong girl.
As Ceryse’s birthday looms on the horizon. She’d be able to submit her name for The Goblet. If selected, she would receive the Daffodil Crown, meaning she would bring wealth to her family. Yet each innocent girl granted honour never returns. Ceryse discovers they will use her as a sacrifice in a blood ritual for the gods.
Morghan has been alone for more than a century, left to rule in the dark over souls desperate to better their lot in the mortal realm. Morghan rules from her onyx throne, ensuring justice and balance across the realms.
One moonlit night, their two fates are intertwined. Ceryse will descend into the seductive nature of magic promised to her through a long bloodline. Morghan might finally connect with someone of equal standing.
Both will find the strength and love they have deserved for a lifetime.
The gods will not be happy.
A tragic accident at the summer festival leaves the small lakeside town of Devil’s Bay rocked. Delilah and her sister have fought most of their lives to break free of each other. Still haunted by the event that happened at the festival and the nightmarish creatures lurking in the water with talons clawing for the surface Long-held secrets will be aired. The Neruda family and townspeople will be pushed to breaking point. Slide on into a booth order a smooth milkshake and enjoy your first visit to Devil’s Bay.
Delilah Neruda is one of a pair of twins who has to face up to the tragedy of losing her sister, Kimberly, in a boating accident. It's made more difficult by the fact that 1) she never really liked her sister (who sounds like a poisonous piece of work); 2) her mother makes it very clear that she lost the wrong twin; and 3) it slowly becomes obvious that Kimberly was taken by some unnatural horror beneath the waves. And that horror also thinks it got the wrong twin.
The author does a good job of slowly building the tension, combining the growing awareness of the marine monster with ghastly factional school politics and the general difficulties of life as a teenager (all without lapsing into cliché). She has the same eye for detail of everyday life, and the ability to combine it with something out of this world and horrific, as Stephen King. And some very nice turns of phrase too.
What is also impressive is that the author is dyslexic, and tackling something at book length must be like climbing a mountain. Her condition also lends itself to a very punchy style, with short sentences that precisely nail the impressions she is trying to make. Unfortunately this also works against her from time to time. She credits some named individuals with editorial help that no doubt helped her pace the story very well, but I wish she had also hired someone just to check the text. Commas and full stops get mixed up, wrong words are used from time to time. You can tell what she means, but it tends to break the spell she is trying to cast.