![From Darkest Seas: A Through The Veil Novel by [Chase, Rosalind]](https://images-fe.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41b2Y5HOBZL._SY346_.jpg)
How do you pick up the pieces of your life when you’ve lost the one person you love more than anyone else? After their heart stops beating but yours keeps on? From Darkest Seas is a book about the hearts that kept beating and how we move forward from grief, how we rebuild - not in spite of our grief, but BECAUSE of it, because the person we loved would have wanted us to live brilliantly and happily. And, maybe, to love again.
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After retiring from his work as a detective, reeling from the death of his wife, Greg decides that moving to a sleepy, remote, Appalachian lake town is what he needs. Maybe there he can find peace from the ghosts that follow him - ghosts of regret, of missed opportunities, of lost chances, of words unspoken. Maybe he can disappear for awhile.
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Rhona has lived lifetimes. She is immortal, a blessing and a curse. A blessing because she is nearly untouchable. A curse because she can never be caught. The world keeps spinning around her, the lives of humans so short, so fleeting that if she blinks, they are gone. And yet she chooses to love a human anyway. More than once. Knowing that her heart will break. Knowing that they will die and she will keep on living.
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This is a brutal, beautiful book but it’s not a sad book. Because, at the end of the day, this book is about healing and hope. The healing is brought about in no small part by sex, which makes sense because isn’t it the most primal of our baser instincts? To claim? To connect?
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Greg’s journey leads him to discoveries about his late wife, about unspoken desires and needs - from both of them. Things that terrify Greg because he doesn’t understand what they mean and what participating in them makes him. But Rhona knows. Rhona has always known. We all have monsters within us and we only really live when we set them free.
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The story will sweep you off your feet and Chase’s sparse, stunning prose will make you reread sentences over and over for their beauty. If you like a romance that will challenge you and make you hope for something better, both for the characters and for yourself, this is a must-read. It’s poignant and breathtakingly sexy. Do not miss it.
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Kiss and Tell:
This book has a bit of everything. Chase is the master of writing kinky sex that feels real and relatable - which it should be. Kissing, hand play, oral, p&v sex, and BDSM feature. The sexual chemistry is off the charts and while the prose is sparse, you’ll be panting for more.
Product Description
Selkie.
It’s a memory of a word his wife once taught him. Before she died. Before he became famous for catching the Blue Heart Killer. Before he took early retirement and moved to a quiet mountain town for the sole purpose of forgetting. Forgetting his grief, his mistakes, his nature.
But Greg Owens can’t forget.
And neither can Rhona Leith.
Not since she slipped through the veil. Not since she pulled the seal skin from her body and took human form, took human life. Not since she fell in love once, twice, three times. No, Rhona can never forget how inhuman she truly is.
Selkie.
A myth. A legend. A monster.
As both of their pasts come to light, Greg and Rhona explore a realm of pleasure and pain, love and regret, life and death. Greg soon realizes that Rhona could be the key to dispelling the darkness inside of him.
Or maybe she will simply set it free.
This original, modern fairy tale is a darkly sensual story full of magical realism, murder and the monsters within us. With FF/MFM/MF relationships and the unexpected romance that comes after the HEA ended too soon, From Darkest Seas features characters who do time travel the long way: by just staying alive. Expect sexy alpha Highlanders, the French Revolution, a Belle Époque illicit club , and much more.
