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Derrolyn Anderson, the author of The Marina Tales , has a new book coming out!! Which looks totally Awesome !!!! It's called The Athena Effect ! What's it about? Country girl Cal has been kept a secret her entire life, raised in isolation by two very troubled people. Despite her parent’s disturbing fits, Cal is perfectly content, living at one with nature and finding adventure inside the pages of her beloved books.   When an awful tragedy tears her away from her remote cabin in the woods, nothing she’s ever read has prepared her for a world that she knows very little about.   Girls and motorcycles are what bad-boy Cal’s life is all about. Brought up in a raucous party house by his biker brother, he’s free to do as he pleases, going through the motions on his final days of high school. Aimless, Cal stopped thinking about his future a long time ago. Attacked by a gang of thugs while running an errand for his brother, Cal is in serious trouble ...

***May Contain SPOILERS from previous novels in the series!!*** The Fate of the Muse is the third book in The Marina Tales by Derrolyn Anderson.  Between the Land and the Sea was the first in the series which started off Marina's tales as she moved to Aptos, California to live with her aunt and cousin. She meets Ethan, a handsome boy her age, who she finds herself falling for faster than she could have ever imagined.  Along the way she learns her mother, who passed away while giving birth to Marina, had a secret that no one ever knew, except her father.  She was a mermaid. When Marina learns to surf, she soon finds that she has these powers.  She can talk to mermaids in their native tongue, and becomes friends with a couple of them. In The Tide and the Moon , the sequel to Between the Land and the Sea Marina learns more about her mermaid heritage, including some secrets that come to surprise, pertaining to people in her lives.  She learns more about hers...