Deadly Destinations & Giveaway: Tera Lynn Childs takes us to Thalassinian from FINS ARE FOREVER

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Continuing with our final week of Deadly Destinations, today we’re dipping into the ocean and visiting Tera Lynn Childs's undersea Merkingdom of Thalassinian, the setting of FINS ARE FOREVER (available now from HarperTeen).  I spent last summer enjoying FORGIVE MY FINS, calling it ‘sparkling splash of a story full of crush worthy guys, adolescent teen angst, and magical romance.’  Want to get your fins on a copy of the latest book? HarperTeen has offered a giveaway copy to one commenter.  See details below.

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Your Thalassinian Dream Vacation
by
Tera Lynn Childs

Are you tired of the heat and humidity of summer? Do you daydream about cool waters and exotic locations? Have you ever wanted to dive under the ocean and never come back? Then maybe you need a holiday in the sub-Caribbean paradise of Thalassinia. Let Thalassinian Adventures plan your trip.

When you first arrive in Thalassinia, accompanied by a royal tour guide, you might think it is just another part of the natural underwater world between Florida and the Bahamas. Another section of reef and rocky outcroppings, covered in colorful sealife like fans and anemones and kelp in every color of the rainbow. But if you look closely, just beneath the surface, you’ll notice the patterns that indicate a mer-made landscape.

Your royal tour guide will swim you into the city center, within floating distance of the palace walls and the best shops and restaurants Thalassinia has to offer. Customize your tour with add-on adventures like wakemaker rides through dense kelp forests, pearl harvesting in the great Thalassinian oyster beds, or—for the truly daring—a Great White derby at the racetrack.

For those with more relaxation in mind, a casual swim through the kingdom always leads to unexpected discoveries. The sea spas of Thalassinia offer the most rejuvenating salt scrubs and seaweed masks in all the oceans. Explore the rainbow of colors in the royal gardens, visit the Thalassinian Marketplace to find countless treasures, or simply enjoy the view from your hotel room as merfolk and sealife float by on the current.

Whatever your ideal vacation entails, let Thalassinian Adventures help you plan the underwater adventure of a lifetime. To request more information, send a messenger gull to our offices in the historic district.

~ the friendly staff of Thalassinian Adventures

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About Tera Lynn Childs

Tera Lynn Childs is the award-winning author of the mythology-based Oh. My. Gods. and Goddess Boot Camp, the mermaid tales Forgive My Fins and Fins Are Forever (June 28, 2011) and a new trilogy about monster-hunting descendants of Medusa, starting with Sweet Venom (October 4, 2011). She has also epublished two fun chick lit romances, Eye Candy and Straight Stalk. Tera lives nowhere in particular and spends her time writing wherever she can find a comfy chair and a steady stream of caffeinated beverages. Visit Tera Lynn Childs online: Website|Blog|Facebook|Twitter

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Giveaway provided by HarperTeen

One copy of FINS ARE FOREVER by Tera Lynn Childs

Available now from HarperTeen

Description:

On Lily Sanderson’s eighteenth birthday she’ll become just a girl—still a mergirl, true, but signing the renunciation will ink Princess Waterlily of Thalassinia out of existence. That leaves plain old Lily living on land, dating the boy she loves, and trying to master this being-human thing once and for all.

Now that Lily and Quince are together, mer bond or not, she’s almost content to give up her place in the royal succession of Thalassinia. But just when she thinks she has everything figured out, the waves start to get rough. Lily’s father sends a certain whirlpool-stirring cousin to stay with her on land. What did Doe do to get herself exiled from Thalassinia and stuck in terraped form when everyone knows how much she hates humans? And why why why is she batting her eyelashes at Lily’s former crush, Brody?

The seafoam on the raging surf comes when a merboy from Lily’s past shows up—Tellin asks Lily for something that clouds her view of the horizon. There’s a future with Quince on land, her loyalty to the kingdom in the sea, and Lily tossing on the waves in the middle. Will she find a way to reconcile her love, her duty, and her own dreams?

Tera Lynn Childs’s sequel to Forgive My Fins offers another tail-flicking romance with plenty of fun, sun, and underwater adventure.

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