The Mermaid and the Shark Keeper
A Workplace Romance

About this book:

At Aquatica Bay Aquarium, the main tank isn't big enough for both of them. Marina Vance has spent three years ruling the oceanarium as its lead mermaid performer—tail shimmering, breath held, smile perfected for the second-graders pressing sticky fingers to the glass. Then Julian Thorne arrives: a shark behavioral specialist with a clipboard, a permanent scowl, and zero tolerance for "unnecessary variables" like Marina's act. He sees a liability; she sees a funding source. When the director installs a literal partition down the middle of the tank, their war goes cold, wet, and deeply personal.

Forced to share the water—and the sharks—Julian's rigid protocols clash with Marina's intuitive chaos at every feeding, every dive, every stolen glance through the vinyl mesh. He thinks she treats apex predators like props; she thinks he treats living creatures like data points. But as the tension shifts from professional sabotage to something far more dangerous, they're both forced to admit the strongest current in the tank isn't the filtration system. It's the one pulling them toward each other.

Smart, steamy, and soaked in atmosphere, *The Mermaid and the Shark Keeper* is a workplace romance where the enemies-to-lovers current runs deep, the banter is sharp as a sand tiger's teeth, and the only thing more unpredictable than the sharks... is the chemistry.