Castaway Mermaid

By E. Connally

During a vicious storm Evan is shipwrecked and is saved but winds up on a deserted island and doesn’t know how. He has dreams of a gorgeous mermaid and finds she has been looking after him. After a mythological courtship they fall in love and Evan becomes Kiera’s lover.

Kiera had run away from her mermaid clan because some sailors saw her and began their search for her. Soon the sailors find her, and they must battle sailors for her freedom. Evan also discovers life with a mermaid has certain living adjustments. Can their love survive?

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• Language: English
• Publisher: E. Connally
• Release date: Nov 19, 2021
• ISBN: 9780463576526

E. Connally

E. Connally - I am an engineer, IT Manager and Entrepreneur. I have been writing for fifteen years and I am also a professional photographer. I have lived in Jamaica, Texas and all over the United States, but now live in Tennessee. I have traveled extensively in Africa, Asia, India and the Caribbean. There's something sensual and romantic about visiting another country and trying to understand its people and culture, so I try and weave my travels into all my stories.I love creating things, whether it be a beautiful sensual photo, building a chemical process or a rich steamy story. Creating things is a very personal, romantic and sensual act. I have been a photographer for over 30 years and a writer for 15. I published my first photography book over 25 years ago and my first written book 14 years ago.Being a hopeless romantic I began writing romance stories in 2005. Somehow hot and steamy passion seemed to enter into every story. So began my new career as an romance author that also believes wistful, daring, uninhibited desire is part of beautiful intimate love. All of us want to find that love. The one that conquers us, makes us weak in the knees and has a sense of belonging that completes us. It takes real strength and courage to surrender complete control to your lover, but without yielding to your lover you will never find what you seek. Submission in a relationship is strength covered in dignity. While love is a delicate balance between preserving who you are and at the same time giving all you have to your lover.To truly love you must be able to sacrifice. You must be able to give of yourself completely and totally without any regard to the consequences. Likewise, you must be able to take what you want from your lover, what you need, as well as what you desire. It's this intimate dance of give-and-take that makes love so powerful and earth shattering. As mere mortals, all we crave for someone to love us with as much passion and commitment as we love them. As simple as that sounds is incredibly hard to achieve, but when it happens look out because your world will never be the same.

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Castaway Mermaid

By

E. Connally

Dedication

This book and all others that come after it are dedicated to my Dad. He started all this. When my dad passed, my brothers and I began going through all of his stuff we found he had been writing a book. To be honest it was more of a historical accounting of our genealogy, and it was quite dry. However, it got me to think about writing.

I started writing, but somehow the problems in my own life began appearing in my writing. When work was frustrating my characters seem to also get into trouble, but always found a way out. When romance was lacking in my life, my characters seem to find hot the passionate romance I could not find.

In other words, my writing became my catharsis and life seemed much simpler on the pages of a book. Why can’t life have logical and loving conclusions to our human frailties like they exist in stories?

Castaway Mermaid

by

E. Connally

Copyright © 2021

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, in part or in full, without the express written consent from the author and publisher. An exception is granted to reviewers who may quote brief passages in a review.

All characters appearing in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons living or dead is purely coincidental. All characters depicted in this book are above the age of eighteen, and all sexual acts depicted are consensual.

Acknowledgement

I wanted to thank all my fans that gave me ideas for various scenes in this book. Your feedback is the food for my writer's soul and your ideas feed my writing compulsion. I wanted to single out Tigerssman, ess, mishfoxyy17, Navaura, and tiemeup.makemecum for their ideas and feedback.

I also want to thank two very special people. First my editor, Ann, without her, my ideas would be here, but in an unreadable format. She structured and crafted my words into proper English language making everything readable. I did not do well in English Grammar class, so trust me you are very happy that I have such a wonderful editor. In addition, she gave me ideas for character development and directions for the story. This story is as much hers as mine.

The second special person is Brandi at ebook Cover Designs. She put together the cover design and it pulled a story into a book. I have worked with many other artists, but Brandi is incredible, easy to work with, resulting in covers beyond my wildest expectations. The Covers make the book, and they are better than I ever envisioned.

Thank you all for helping this come together into the ebook Castaway Mermaid.

Other Books By E. Connally

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Cindy Finds Her Master ( 3 Book Series )

Pirate Treasure – Book 1

Perfect Picture – Book 2

Her Master’s Starlet – Book 3

Becoming Her Masters Fantasy ( 4 Book Series )

Erica’s Awakening – Book 1

Erica’s Journey – Book 2

Erica’s Intrigue – Book 3

Erica’s Discovery – Book 4

Model Slave

Dance of Seduction

Virgin Sacrifice

The Space Slave Series

Venus Ascending

The Sovereign Space Station Venus

April Wears Steve’s Collar Series

Dominant Warfare

A Diamond in the Rough

Sophies Halloween Adventures

The Halloween Bunny

Sophie is Barbarella

The Hotwife Series

The Night Out

The Prize

Date Night

The Pandemic Slave

The Paladin Series

The Knight and the Assassin

The Tales of Mermaids Cove

The Mermaid and the SEAL

Castaway Mermaid

The Holiday Display Window

The Snow Leopard

The Showgirl and the Engineer

Elsa Tomb Raider Series

Goddesses Bondservant

Trapping the Raider

The Harem

The Fallen Angel Series

Innocent Angel

Seductive Angel

Spoiled Angel

Coming Soon

Scandalous Schoolgirl

The Fisherman’s Delicious Catch

The Queen’s Knight

Savings the Princess

The Ghost in the Tomb

Castaway Mermaid

Chapter 1

Huge waves were sweeping over the sides of his sailboat and buffeting the boat back and forth. At times he felt like he was in a toy sailboat in the bathtub of a rambunctious toddler. Before the storm hit, he buttoned up the cabin, dropped his sails and knew he could survive the storm. Then his engine quit and while he was working on getting that fixed, his bilge pump stopped.

It was as if God decided it was his time and no matter what he did, God had another problem to throw at him. For a few moments he tried using a bucket to bail the water out of the boat, but he knew that was useless. He tried to fix the bilge pump, but nothing worked, and water broke out of the bilge letting water flow into the cabin.

The storm seemed to be getting worse and once again he frantically renewed his efforts to fix the bilge pump. When that failed, he renewed his work on the engine and got it working again. He quickly studied his nautical charts to find any land close and found some shoals and tiny islands were the closest. He set course for the islands and within thirty minutes the engine quit. As much as he hated to admit it, he may have to abandon ship, but only at the last second.

Before he totally gave up, he sent an SOS over the radio and he even tried his satellite phone, but it couldn’t get a signal. Evan wracked his brain trying to think of a way out, but exhaustion, fear and panic left him without any options. He gathered his life raft from down below and as he exited his hatch a colossal wave bashed his head against the cowling. He dropped the raft, and it was swept overboard.

Evan looked to the heavens and shouted, What have I done to you Lord to warrant this torment?

He didn’t expect an answer, but he got one when a boom swung violently and hit him in the head. He went overboard and blacked out for a couple of seconds. Evan came to about ten feet from the boat, groggy and disoriented, but his instincts told him to swim to the boat. He grabbed ahold of a superfluous rope and drifted while his head cleared. The cold water initially woke him up, but the longer he stayed in the water the more hypothermic he became.

Evan gathered his strength and pulled himself into the boat. He lay on the deck, utterly defeated, but he couldn’t let it end like this. He gathered his wits, crawled across the deck and hoisted his main sail. If he could just get to the island, maybe he could find a sheltered anchor and it would give him time to fix his boat. But it seemed the storm had other plans.

A bolt of lightning crackled through the night, hit his mast, with the boom and half of the mast crashing down and through the shell of the boat. With the hull breach his boat began to sink in earnest. Water gushed towards him mixed with debris and he snatched a life preserver as it almost floated away. Evan rapidly strapped on the life preserver and soon his sailboat sank out from under him.

The vacuum of his sinking boat pulled him under the water and continued to pull at him. The buoyancy of the life preserver as well as his struggles broke the vacuum and allowed him to burst through to the surface. He looked around the black sky and driving rain with only the occasional lightning giving him a view of his bleak situation.

Evan bobbed like a cork in the frothy sea, totally at the mercy of the heartless ocean. He had no idea if he would survive the night, but his mind couldn’t give up. He tried to think of a way out, but nothing came to mind, and he continued to drift in the cold black ocean.

The cold began to seep into his body while he bobbed in the cruel sea. While he fought to stay awake, after an hour his head lolled on his chest and soon his body would be shutting down.

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Kiera had been swimming deep to avoid the turbulent storm on the surface, when a sinking sailboat almost hit her. Her curiosity got the better of her and she began to rise to the surface. Her mermaid vision allowed her to see a lone human bobbing on the surface and she slowly approached him.

She saw his head hanging low and knew he was dying. Kiera watched him and something lit inside her. Something about this man made her want to save him. He was weathered, but incredibly handsome, strong and muscled in a way that made her want to feel herself in his arms.

Kiera grabbed his life preserver and with her strong tail began the long swim to a deserted island she knew about. It took more than a couple of hours fighting the sea while dragging dead weight, but in the end, she dragged him up onto the sand.

With the storm breaking and the horizon turning gray with the coming sunrise, she had a good view of the man she had just saved, and her heart leapt in her chest. Kiera had many dreams of what her mate should look like, and this man was in her dreams. He was strongly muscled, and his features were chiseled out of her fantasies.

She stared at him remembering how his beefy arms felt wrapped around her in her fantasies. While her eyes swept over his strong muscled body, she remembered how his kisses felt in her dreams and how his hands felt as they intimately caressed her. Poseidon must have been smiling on her as he delivered her dream lover to her.

Kiera’s mind drifted to the dreams that seemed to include his man and goosebumps erupted on her skin as she thought back to his touches, caresses and kisses. For several minutes she basked in the memories of her fantasy lover and truly hoped this was the man. She shook her head to clear her mind as she stared at him and then made a decision.

She drew her knife and put it next to her man. She stood and took several steps backwards and muttered, If he was her dream man, then he should prove his abilities. If he can survive with just a knife, then and only then, would he be worthy.

Chapter 2