Silent Mermaid

<p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>How does a silent mermaid win a war of song?</strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>How does she break the siren song of the witch holding her beloved captive?</strong></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>After being touched by the sun at birth Princess Arianna has grown up imprisoned between two worlds neither fully mermaid nor fully human. Her life is one of solitude and dreams. But when she loses her family and her kingdom in a war between man and merfolk she's forced to flee into the arms of the enemy. Her only hope of protection lies in the penniless prince that she once saved and his two boisterous nieces.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Prince Michael is at his wit's end. After the great maritime war he must clean up the pieces of neglect folly and evil that his grandfather has left behind. With his people starving and his treasury nearly empty the familiar girl from the past that falls piteously at his feet cannot be afforded his attention. He has only the resources and time for the barest of good deeds to pay back that which she gave him. But the more Michael begins to hear the girl beneath her silence the more he realizes she just might be the distraction he cannot survive without.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>All the while a dangerous darkness is beginning to poison the ocean and an evil foreseen by neither Arianna nor Michael threatens the very existence of both peoples. If they wish to restore their kingdoms Arianna and Michael will need to reassess their alliances their beliefs and an ancient prophecy that's been all but forgotten.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Most importantly however they must decide whether they can move past their personal pain and trust one another. Because if they can't everything and everyone they love will fall.</span></p><p><br></p><p><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>If you want the magic of Narnia and the romance of fairy tales read this clean fantasy retelling of The Little Mermaid today to escape into the Classical Kingdoms Collection a series of clean fantasy fairy tale retellings with magical mystery clean passionate romance and heroic happily-ever-afters.</em></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Author's Note: Silent Mermaid is fifth in the Classical Kingdoms Collection but can be read as a stand-alone.</strong></p>