About The Story of Undine: Traditional Mermaid Folk Stories Collection:
A changeling water spirit gains a soul, when she falls in love with a human being… But if a human rejects the love of one of her kind, she will disappear… And if he betrays her, he will die… A romantic, tragic, supernatural story, based on a very famous european legend. This story may only be suitable for higher middle grade age kids, young adults and anyone else. This is book 12 in our Traditional Mermaid Folk Stories Collection.
Book Excerpt: “For the most part, the fisherman and his wife had a comfortable life, and they both adored their little girl. But then one day, a terrible thing happened. When the fisherman was chopping wood, his wife ran to him, crying desperately. She said that their daughter had wandered away from her while she was near the lake, and she must have fallen in. His wife had tried hard to find her in the water, but she seemed to be lost.
They ran to the lake and got in the water, and waded and swam, and scrambled around in desperation looking for her, ducking under, calling out her name, and shouting to each other, until they were both exhausted and freezing and weeping with heartbreak and despair, when the fisherman sadly came across the child’s pale blue cap, lying in some grasses in the water, and at once, they realised that their beautiful daughter must have drowned.
The fisherman and his wife were grief-stricken for some time afterwards, they could not stop thinking about their child, they felt that their lives were ruined, they struggled to get on with their daily work, and although there were seldom any visitors to the cottage anyway, they avoided everyone they had known and kept entirely to themselves.
Then, not long afterwards, yet another mysterious thing happened. The fisherman’s wife thought one day, that she heard her child, crying in her old bedroom, and she went to look. There, in her small carved wooden bed, was the sweetest little girl, of about the same age. Except this child…” (It’s on most of the other main bookstores as well.)
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Author Bio:
Melanie Voland is a multi-genre (mainly fantasy and historical), multi-pen name author, freelance writer, online teacher, holistic therapist and multi-creative entrepreneur, originally from the UK. I also hope to get traditionally published with a series of books under a different pen-name.