When a young widow finds a severely injured man on the beach, she discovers he isn't human. Now Micah is Katie's secret, but how will she keep the secret, help him recover, and not lose her heart to him? ..".Demanding and insistent, the voices came back into my head and evaporated this temporary bliss right out of me. "He's not the same species You want children-not guppies " the voices screamed. "He's married, maybe a widower, but still, you can't even take him home to meet your parents " another voice insisted. "Even if he is a widower, how will you get him to a wedding ceremony?" another...

-He held the knife at my throat with one hand and with the other he started to undo the top button of my pajama top. I cringed and a cry escaped my lips. The other man with the whip moved closer. The man with the knife began cutting the threads of the next button. The knife must have been very sharp because I barely felt a tug before I heard the button drop to the floor. He moved the knife down to the third button and leered at me, and then looked down at the button. I was definitely going to be sick, I thought. -If you're going to kill me, at least tell me why you killed my husband, - I...

-We'd been married nearly two years when our lives suddenly took a bad turn, right over a precipice. I had awakened in the wee hours of the morning and decided I was a little hungry. I fixed a small bowl of cereal and stood by the French doors gazing out at the stars. I watched as the first grey light of dawn slowly made the stars begin to fade. Micah was suddenly at my side. -I need to get you out of here,- he said between clenched teeth. -Why?- I gasped. His whole body was quivering and tense and I realized he was having a 'fight or flight' reaction. -Three mermen, maybe more, are coming,-...