{"product_id":"drenched-a-horror-romance","title":"Drenched: A Horror Romance","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eI came to the ocean to explore its secrets. \u003c\/span\u003eThe ocean came for me.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003eOne dive.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003eThat’s all I needed.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003eSeawater samples, algae data, one decent research paper to save a career I’d spent fifteen years building. One dive and I could go home.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003eSarkivik is a village people don’t talk about. Frozen cliffs, empty fishing nets, locals who won’t look you in the eye when you ask about the water.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003eI brought a research team to study bioluminescent algae growing on the ocean floor, organisms no human had ever seen alive before. The villagers told us to stay on land. My crew laughed it off.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003eI should have listened.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003eOn the first dive, the algae pulsed when I touched it.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003eBrightened.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003eReached for my hand like it knew I was there.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003eThen my gear cracked. One mouthful of seawater and I swallowed what I’d come to study. By the time I surfaced, sunlight blistered my skin and food turned to ash on my tongue.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003eMy body wasn’t mine anymore.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003eThat’s when he found me.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003eRynar guards the Abyss, the black deep under the ocean where light doesn’t reach and things older than human memory still move.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003eHe has a body that shifts between legs and tail like the ocean refuses to let him stay human. He told me the algae changed what I am. The surface will kill me now.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003eHe brings me black pearls and rare shells, laid out the way a predator courts a mate.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003eHe watches me work.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003eHe calls me his.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003eHe touches me like I’m the most valuable thing the ocean ever gave him.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003eI’m a scientist. I should be studying him. Naming him. Surviving him.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003eI stopped wanting the surface weeks ago.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003eAnd that scares me more than the deep ever could.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003eDrenched is Book 2 of The Primal Sins Collection. Each book can be read as a standalone.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003eMF dark monster romance. HEA. No cliffhanger.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003eTropes:\u003cbr\u003ePossessive merman, captive romance, plus-size FMC over 35, body horror, forced proximity, he falls first.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c!-- x-tinymce\/html --\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePlease check content advisory before purchasing.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sanam Asif","offers":[{"title":"Perfect Bound","offer_id":52026807353642,"sku":"9620863000057","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1001\/2898\/1290\/files\/book_Drenched_Sephyrra.jpg?v=1782933713","url":"https:\/\/authorsephyrra.com\/products\/drenched-a-horror-romance","provider":"Author Sephyrra","version":"1.0","type":"link"}