I've got the cover art for my new novel, Water, which will be released by Loose Id sometime next month. See the banner below.  Despite its appearance, I promise you, my novel does not contain Mermen. That's a commitment I've made as an author:

I, Astrid Amara, promise you, the reader:

No Mermen;
No Nazis;
And no Nazi Mermen.

To prove it, I've gone ahead and uploaded an excerpt! You can view it on my website. Give it a read and let me know what you think!

So what's it about, if it isn't about fascist aqua sapiens? Well.....

On Joel Passaro's birthday, he watched his lover Charlie drown while saving Joel's life. Since then, no other man has been able to match the erotic chemistry the two of them once shared.

But a year later Joel is shocked to discover Charlie alive and well, looking as mysterious and attractive as ever.

However Charlie is different. He has new, arcane superpowers. He doesn't seem to remember Joel at all.

And he murders people with his bare hands.

Suddenly Joel finds himself on the run from both his lover, and a frightening group of dangerous individuals who can wield the elements at will, and who are determined to kill him to keep their secret safe.

But the smoldering looks Charlie gives Joel remind him of their former, heated passion, and even with Charlie's new homicidal tendencies, they discover that their bodies remember what their minds may have forgotten....