Sneak Preview of my new YA: Tempest Rising

Hi Everyone! The Beth Kery Explosive giveaway will be going on until midnight tonight, but I have a new post over at my brand new blog, http://www.tracy-deebs.blogspot.com It's the prologue for my first YA novel, Tempest Rising. I'd love it if you stop by and read it/leave a comment. I'll be giving away an ARC early next week-- which I'll cross post here! I also have a bunch of different goodies lined up to give away over there in the next couple of months, as I anxiously wait for it to hit the shelves. Anyway, I hope you enjoy:)

Here's the blurb:

Tempest Maguire wants nothing more than to surf the killer waves near her California home; continue her steady relationship with her boyfriend, Mark; and take care of her brothers and surfer dad. But Tempest is half mermaid, and as her seventeenth birthday approaches, she will have to decide whether to remain on land or give herself to the ocean like her mother. The pull of the water becomes as insistent as her attraction to Kai, a gorgeous surfer whose uncanny abilities hint at an otherworldly identity as well. And when Tempest does finally give in to the water's temptation and enters a fantastical underwater world, she finds that a larger destiny awaits her—and that the entire ocean's future hangs in the balance.