WIP Intro: Below These Wicked Waves
Category/Genre: Young Adult Fantasy Romance (15+)
Status: Outlining (*This is a side WIP; most of my writing time is going towards my main project*)
Project Type: Stand alone
Writing style: First person, present tense (Dual POV)
Tropes: Arranged marriage, "touch-her-and-I'll-kill-you", mermaids, HEA (Sorry, Hans Christian Andersen), villain pov, slow burn romance, morally grey characters
Synopsis: Echo, the youngest daughter of King Aquarius has been betrothed to the Sea Witch: a terrifying necromancer with tentacles in place of a mermaid tail. As an engagement gift, Echo is offered the opportunity to dance on land — temporarily exchanging her tail for legs to fulfil her childhood dream.
Yet all spells come at a cost; on land, mermaids cannot speak and must return to the sea before the next moon phase, unless they wish to forget their merfolk lives forever.
After an argument with her fiancée, Echo uses the spell alone and ends up trapped on land, having forgotten the reversal spell. Now in the hands of a freak-show owner, a man who believes Echo is the key to his dying company's future, she must fight to find her way home or risk losing more than her memories.
Taglist (Just putting this here so I don't forget): @quilloftheclouds @mel-writes-with-her-dragons @ashen-crest