Love is even more slippery than this mermaid when wet.Becky knows she’s going to die unless she does something drastic, say like ingest an experimental treatment. The side effects are a bit fishy, though.She could have handled becoming a mermaid if it wasn’t for the plan to sell her to the highest bidder. She has to escape, but how can she when Jett, the world’s grumpiest guard, won’t let her out … world’s grumpiest guard, won’t let her out of his sight?
A seductive siren might make a man forget his duty, but she never expected him to love her.
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How did the author combine romantic suspense with slapstick romance with a mermaid? The author clearly has a twisted imagination. That is good – she will keep giving us these off-the-wall fun romances!
If I could only recommend one book this month, Guarding the Mermaid would be it. I loved it, and I’ll confess I was predisposed to dislike this book.
Mermaids are not my thing. I see “mermaids,” and I’m not interested. Becky, the heroine, came across as dingaling in book 1 (A Nurse for the Wolfman). I didn’t like her in the previous book. Hero Jett is the kind of alpha-hole you find in dark romance. Definitely not my thing. But those elements put together in this story—Wow!
Becky is no dingaling. She’s a nurse in search of a scoop that will allow her to become an investigative reporter (somebody should have told her there’s more money in nursing than in journalism). But the clock is ticking. She’s terminally ill. After she’s attacked by a strange patient at the hospital where she works, she’s offered a job at remote, top-secret medical clinic. She figures out something fishy is going on, and the clinic and its brilliant Dr. Chimera might be her big break.
While Becky is suspicious of the doctor and his experiments; he’s suspicious of her, and orders his henchman Jett to key an eye on her and eliminate her if she becomes a problem. Jett is an amoral enforcer with no compunction about killing somebody if the job calls for it.
But despite himself, he begins to care for Becky. However, as her terminal illness progresses, she wonders if one of Dr. Chimera’s experiments might offer her a miracle cure. However, those experiments come with huge risk—a horrific, painful death or something much, much worse.
How far will she go to try to save her life? How far will Jett go?
Guarding the mermaid offers a tantalizing concoction of medical sci-fi, paranormal, dark romance, and a touch of horror that makes for a page-turning, compelling read. Highly recommend.
Book two gives us Becky’s story. Becky dreams of becoming a groundbreaking journalist – she just needs a kickass story to start her career. Until then, she’ll continue nursing and caring for others. When an opportunity to join the nursing team at a top-secret facility arises, she jumps at the chance. There must be something super-secret there she can write about?
Jett is a guard at the Chimaeram Clinic, with no place in his life for pesky things like feelings. He does his job. He’s a company man, and loyal to Dr. Chimera. He knows about the experiments going on there, and it does not faze him. When Becky enters the facility, he keeps finding himself rescuing the beautiful redhead from multiple dangerous situations. Her teasing and flirting wear him down, and he starts to become (gasp) fond of her!
A cure for Becky’s illness turns her into a Mermaid, Jett has to decide whether to toe the company line, or again rescue the nurse he loves. Will love triumph? Will he need to take up scuba diving?