Thanks for having me here today! I'm excited to share my
latest Romance on the Go, ON A DARK TIDE, a story I constantly (and probably
annoyingly) referred to as the Creepy Ocean Story whilst writing it. I'm a
mermaid at heart. I love the ocean, whatever the season, whatever the weather.
Nothing makes me feel as at peace or inspired as sitting by the shore. ON A
DARK TIDE is one of several stories and books I've written with the ocean at
its heart, and it won't be the last.
ON A DARK TIDE also let me touch on something else I love
– true crime and unsolved mysteries. I have a fairly long commute to work each
day, and I usually pass the time by listening to podcasts. Delving into truly
strange and puzzling stories of disappearances helped me shape the background
of Piper and Cam's story, and hopefully you'll enjoy delving into the mystery
of Dina Mackay with them!
Blurb
True crime podcasters Piper and
Cam have travelled to the sleepy seaside town of Findlay to investigate the
disappearance of a woman nearly a decade ago. The theories are wild—everything
from murder to mermaids, and Piper is determined to get to the truth. Battling
her fear of the ocean, Piper soon realizes Findlay has deeper, darker secrets
than she could ever have believed. As she struggles to master her fear and deal
with her unrequited love for Cam, Piper is lured into perilous waters. The
truth waits beneath the waves—and Piper's fate waits with it.
Be Warned: f/f sex
Excerpt
“Cam,”
Piper said again, almost wailing it as Cam took off back up the shore toward
the town. Piper started after her, got her feet tangled in those grabby strands
of seaweed, and toppled over. She landed face-first in the sand, grit and
water-worn stones digging into her palms. “Shit!”
She lay there for a few seconds,
berating herself for being so stupidly tongue-tied. Then she picked herself up
and hugged herself against the bitter cold wind rushing off the waves. She
could fix this.
All she had to do was run after Cam
and say … something. She didn’t know what, though. She still wasn’t sure what
the hell had just happened. What Cam had expected to happen.
But she wouldn’t find out hanging
around on the beach, would she?
She started walking, the distant
lights of the town guiding her. She and Cam had come further than she realized,
and night had swept in while they walked. She couldn’t even see Cam’s
silhouette up ahead. But she couldn’t have gotten far, surely. Piper had only
been down a minute. Piper cupped
her hands to her mouth. “Cam? Cameron!”
There was no answer. The wind
shrieked down the bay, suddenly wild, and Piper flashed back vividly to her
dream last night. She wondered if that’s all it had been, a howling gale
invading her dreams. She glanced out across the ink-dark waters of the bay,
watching the white caps rise and fall as the tide drove in. It was too easy to
imagine being tossed around in those wild waves, mouth full of salt, lungs
burning, body sinking and rising at the will of the water. It was too easy to
imagine Dina Mackay walking into the sea...
Piper shivered, unsure where the
idea came from. The wind rose and fell in strange harmony, filling her head
with shipwrecks and yellowed bones polished by centuries of sand and water. She
stopped looking for Cam, entranced and disturbed by the song of the bay. It did
sound like voices, eerily so. Sweet, inhuman singing as the wind ripped through
hidden caves and over knee-high banks of marram grass.
Dina could have heard that
beautiful, awful music the night she went missing. She could have walked out of
the Lobster Pot, just like Piper had tonight, pleasantly buzzed, and thought
she heard voices down on the shore, out in the water.
Piper
didn't remember moving, but the water lapped at her feet now, so either she’d
moved or the tide had. She wasn’t sure. It didn’t matter. The singing swirled
around her, warming her where the wind had chilled her. The water washed over
her canvas shoes, soaking in and anchoring her to the shore. The singing pulled
at her, dragged at her, as inexorable as the ocean.
Available now
from
Evernight
Publishing - https://tinyurl.com/ybkmr3l7
Amazon US -
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Amazon UK -
https://tinyurl.com/y8u8dc62
About the Author
Naomi likes writing, perfume, fancy tea, and unfathomable
monsters from the dark spaces between the stars, not necessarily in that order.
She has been writing stories ever since she learned how to write, but is still
trying to master the art of biography writing. When she's not dealing with
werewolves, demons, or sea monsters, she's hanging out with her cat and
probably watching a documentary about Bigfoot. If the cat isn't available,
she's with her fiancé watching cookery shows and silently plotting her next
book.
Find me
online:
Twitter -
@naomi_jay
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