num_pages: 380
description: Brook Williams was raised to avoid drawing attention at all costs. At twenty-eight she wonders if her mermaid mothers paranoia isolated Brook and her siblings from society to a harmful extreme. When Brook intervenes to save a stranger from a careening truck however she quickly learns her mothers obsessive concerns were entirely justified.Theres just something about Brook that Cooper Koning cant get off his mind. At first he thinks his infatuation is due to the concussion sustained when she shoved him out of traffic. Then he realizes that shes simply perfectperfect to free him from a looming future being the king of Souersland. His candid Hail Mary proposal comes with few strings attached: Brook marries him hes tossed from the line of succession she gets a wad of cash for her struggling swim school and they go their separate ways.Of course Cooper soon realizes that hed be foolish to let her go.Now that shes left her little world though the mermaid skeletons in Brooks closet can no longer stay hidden. Her mother left the sea to escape a burdensome duty and now that duty is Brooks. And in a strange twist of fate that mantle may mean that it isnt even Coopers human family who should rule Souersland but Brooks magical one.Can a relationship built on fables endure? Or will the star-crossed spouses quickly decide their differences are too tremendous to overcome?
language: English
title: Wish Out of Water
publisher: None