I keep getting questions on what my book is about. Not surprising, right? And it shouldn't be hard to describe. But I am an awkward person, as it turns out, so I describe it like this:

It's a mermaid book. Well, not entirely. Okay so listen- it's kind of like a mermaid book in that it's about merpeople.

And then, when I get really confident, I continue with something like this:

It's a novel about a post-apocalyptic tribe of people who live in the ocean because land is contaminated in the early 2500s. These "merfolk" are not half-fish or anything, and they don't have gills. But they do live at sea, they bind their legs and cover most of their bodies with sealskin to keep their body temperature up, and they have pretty badass armor and weaponry. There are 3 main tribes- okay, pods- and their alliances are unraveling. Meanwhile, land people are just now beginning to come out of their underground cities. And they're not dying. So what does that mean for our heroine, Mida Efren, direct descendant of Murtaugh the Rebel, and High Councilmember of the Efren pod? It means she has to step up to her leadership role in ways she never expected.

It's a tail (eh? eh?) of death, romance, campaigns, betrothals, betrayals, and all the grace of humanity paired with its most wretched ugliness, set in an ocean world unlike any you've ever seen before.

So. That's what the Efrenen Sea series is about.