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She isn’t ready to be queen…
It must have taken amazing people to raise Seidon…
My hero in Awakened is making readers go ga-ga…which is good, because I’d hate to be alone in my total love for this character! And though he talks and thinks about his parents, especially his mother, we never meet them in Awakened.
So naturally, I thought it would be fun to write a short about them!
Brenn, Crown Princess of Daryatla
Brenn isn’t ready to be queen…
But her father is aging, which means the Crown of Daryatla will soon pass to her. Desperate for advice from someone who understands the burden of ruling, she takes an unscheduled trip to visit her cousin, queen of the mer…only to find herself caught up in an uprising.
And of course, the guard she can never stop thinking about—Atlas, who decades ago chose to serve the mer kingdom beneath the waves instead of Daryatla—is there to frown and insist she leave…when all she wants is to be seen and understood.
Atlas will beg if he must.
The ambitious, often violent world of the mer is not where Atlas ever wanted to spend his life, but after his Awakening, he chose to join the mer queen’s guard so that he could tend his mother, who was wasting away from the surface sickness, after spending too long on land with him and his father. Now that she’s gone, he yearns to return to Daryatla…and serve the woman who had first captivated him decades ago.
Atlas
But unrest is brewing in the Sunken Kingdom, and to avoid being caught up in the would-be coup, Atlas and Brenn must make a quick escape to the surface…which isn’t as easy as it should be.
Fall in love with Brenn, the princess who never wanted to be queen, and Atlas, the noble guard who will do anything to serve her, in this Awakened world short.
The mermaid artwork ^^ is by my daughter!!
Roseanna M. White is a bestselling, Christy Award winning author who has long claimed that words are the air she breathes. When not writing fiction, she’s homeschooling her two kids, editing, designing book covers, and pretending her house will clean itself. Roseanna is the author of a slew of historical novels that span several continents and thousands of years. Spies and war and mayhem always seem to find their way into her books…to offset her real life, which is blessedly ordinary.