Shelly Connors moved to the Alabama bayou community to live
with her cousins, Jet and Lily, after the death of her parents. As a
half-mermaid, she needed the connection to her own kind...and to the waters of
the Gulf. By day she works as a water therapist and at night she transforms and
swims in the waters near the family home. Life is peaceful and easy. Until the
night something wrapped in plastic is dumped in the water near Shelly as she is
out swimming.
Shelly can feel the wrongness of the large, oblong,
plastic-wrapped object even before she slices it open to see what’s inside, but
the shock of seeing the young woman’s face, eyes gouged out, is almost more
than she can bear. Shelly surfaces and comes face-to-face with the man who
dumped the victim – and becomes a target herself. Now Shelly must protect
herself, and her cousins, from the very real threat of retribution from a
serial killer. A serial killer who knows their secret.
This debut novel from Alabama author Debbie Herbert is not
what I expected. With Harlequin Nocturne as the publisher, I thought Siren’s
Secret would be…fluffy. Instead the novel is a well-plotted, intriguing, thriller
with a believable romance and a leaning toward the paranormal. It was still a quick read, but mostly because
I didn’t want to put it down. I would recommend this genre-crossing novel to fans of romantic suspense and paranormal fans who are looking for something different.
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