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Three of my cybergirlfriends have books coming out this month and I’ll be telling you about all of them. First, are you in the mood for something romantic and mythological? Try Judi Fennell’s CATCH OF A LIFETIME.

She’s on a mission to save the planet… Mermaid Angel Tritone has been researching humans from afar, hoping to find a way to convince them to stop polluting. When she jumps into a boat to escape a shark attack, it’s her chance to pursue her mission, but she has to keep her identity a total secret… When he finds out what she really is, they’re both in mortal danger… For Logan Hardington, finding a beautiful woman on his boat is surely not a problem—until he discovers she’s a mermaid, and suddenly his life is on the line…

And here’s a note from Judi:  It was funny, but when I wrote Angel’s character (Mer princess who loves all things Human) in her brother’s story, In Over Her Head, Angel was a one-minded scientist. All about finding out anything she could about Humans. Kept asking Erica, Reel’s girlfriend (for lack of a better term without going into the whole story), about Human-isms, that’s all she was to me. So, when I had to develop her into a three dimensional being, I had to see what made her tick.  It surprised me as much as anyone when she thinks to herself that she wants to be more than “Just Angel.” I had no idea that’s how she saw herself, or that that was the reason behind her unflagging desire to head the Mer-Human Coalition her brother Rod, the High Councilman, was in the process of setting up. Rod wouldn’t let Angel interview for the position because he didn’t want to risk losing any more of his siblings to falling in love with a Human, so Angel definitely wasn’t getting the job of interacting with them on a daily basis.  But Angel wants to. She needs to. Otherwise, she’s “Just Angel.” “Just Angel” who always did well in school. “Just Angel” who had any info you needed on Humans. “Just Angel” who always did what she was told.  Angel is the fourth of the five Tritone siblings and the second girl – quintessential “Middle Child.” She needed to break out and make her mark.  But even she couldn’t have imagined that she’d end up living with a Human, falling in love with him and his six year old son, nor setting a contingent of hammerhead sharks on a kidnapping swim, and have to sacrifice herself to the Denizen of the Deep, the greatest sea monstress of them all, Ceto. Nor did she foresee that the gods themselves would get involved.  For all Angel wanted to earn some recognition for her work, even she hadn’t foreseen what her one little reconnaissance mission would come up with.

Judy’s got a great contest running at her website to celebrate the launch of her book. Check out her website for excerpts, reviews and fun pictures from reader and writer conferences, and the chance to “dive in” to her stories. Contest!! To celebrate the release of each of her books, Judi Fennell and the Atlantis Inn and the Hibiscus House bed and breakfasts are raffling off three romantic beach getaway weekends. All information is on Judi’s website.