Miss America and The Shark King: A Dark Historical Monster Romance: 7

Six beauty queens will enter the water.Only one will wear the crown.Atlantic City, 1921.The first Miss America contest.Girls arrive from across the country chasing fame, fortune, and a life far beyond the towns they came from. Photographers crowd the beaches. Hotel men and casino patrons whisper through the ballrooms where the real decisions are made.Among the contestants is Lulah Coon, a preacher's daughter from rural Arkansas with a church-trained voice and an ambition strong enough to carry her across half the country.She did not come to Atlantic City to participate.She came to win.But beauty alone will not win this contest.The crown is already being negotiated in hotel suites and casino lounges where power moves behind closed doors.That is where Lulah meets Mr. Anukane Nanaue.Tall. Elegant. Watchful.A wealthy casino patron whose influence seems to reach everywhere in the city.He offers her something no other girl has.A guarantee.He will make sure she wins the crown.Lulah accepts without asking the only question that matters.How?And once the pageant begins, the girls competing for the crown start dying in the water.Newspapers erupt with headlines about man-eating sharks. Beach towns organize desperate shark hunts. Nets are strung across bathing beaches as fear spreads along the coast.A national panic grips the shore.Tourists flee the ocean.The pageant continues.And Lulah slowly realizes the truth.The sharks are not hunting at random.They are killing her competition.Readers will find: Shark god monster hero Ancient sea deity romance Dark historical monster romance Ambitious beauty queen heroine Deal with a god Morally gray immortal lover "Touch her and die" sea monster energy 1920s Atlantic City glamour and corruptionMISS AMERICA AND THE SHARK KING is a dark historical monster romance inspired by the real shark attacks that terrorized the Jersey Shore and the first Miss America pageant.Part of the Devoted Monsters series, but can be read as a standalone.

Pagina's: 250, Paperback, Independently published