Elena Moore

Mellony is used to being abandoned—but she didn’t expect her newly-wed husband to literally throw her into the sea.

As a fourth daughter, Mellony has always been a burden. Her father even added his best sailing ship to her dowry just to pawn her off to a husband. Still, she’s thrilled to marry a rich and handsome young merchant—until she discovers he’s involved in the slave trade. To silence her, he tosses her to the sea.

Fortunately, an unusual man swims to her rescue. He has a voice full of music, a powerful body that cuts through the waves, and oh, he has a tail.

Pelayo, as it turns out, is not a man at all, but a merman. He calls Mellony a gift from the Sea Mother, a gift that will save his people. He promises to help stop her husband’s enterprise... but only if she’ll accept his pearl and marry him instead.

However, it’s just a matter of time before Pelayo realizes she’s nothing special. Her heart barely survived her first husband’s betrayal... if her second also throws her away, she’ll drown for good.

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Married to a Merman is a sweet and spicy standalone fantasy monster romance book for adults. The story features a monster/human couple and is 68,000 words long. Happily ever after guaranteed.

A Fantasy Monster Romance Novel

Married to a Merman

Jeremy Seekings

University of Cape Town. Centre for Social Science Research

"The provision of financial assistance and personal care in contemporary South Africa entails a distinctive combination of state, market and kin. The state assists financially the deserving poor, but provides little personal care. Better-off people rely increasingly on the market for both income support and care. The poor rely heavily on kin, especially female, maternal kin. The South African case is unlike any of the standard welfare and care regimes identified by Esping-Andersen or his critics." -- Abstract.

Kin, Market and State in the Provision of Care in South Africa

Chuma Himonga

Living Customary Law and Social Realities

Reform of Customary Marriage, Divorce and Succession in South Africa

An Irish Case Study

Renegotiating Family Practices Post Separation

This book is a compilation of tips and writing exercises to help new writers develop basic skills of the trade. This interactive workbook provides insight and practice on character development, cultivating plot ideas, creating strong dialogue and much more.

Tools to Transform Your Idea Into a Real Work of Fiction

Novel Basics

This book investigates how customary practices in South Africa have led to negotiation and contestation over human rights, gender and generational power. Drawing on a range of original empirical studies, this book provides important new insights into the realities of regulating personal relationships in complex social fields in which customary practices are negotiated. This book not only adds to a fuller understanding of how customary practices are experienced in contemporary South Africa, but it also contributes to a large discussion about the experiences, impact and ongoing negotiations around changing structures of gender and generational power and rights in contemporary South Africa. It will be of interest to researchers across the fields of sociology, family/customary law, gender, social policy and African Studies.

Generation, Gender and Negotiating Custom in South Africa

“This book is a carefully researched, clearly written, very important contribution to our understanding of divorce.” —Arlie Hochschild, University of California, USA “This rich, evidence-informed narrative provides a frank, ‘up close and personal’ portrait of the aftermath of marriage dissolution.” — Mary Corcoran, Maynooth University, Ireland “Moore throws a welcome light on the moral identities and gendered inequalities of parenting after separation.” — Rosalind Edwards, University of Southampton, UK This book focuses on parental commitment to family life after divorce, in contrast to its common perception as an irrevocable breaking up of the family unit, which is often perpetuated by representations from popular culture and the media. In the first detailed review of emotions and emotion work undertaken by divorced parents, the author sheds light on how parents manage feelings of guilt, fear, on-going anger and everyday unhappiness in the course of family life post-divorce. Moore demonstrates how the emotional dimension of divorce is shaped by societal and structural factors and requires parents to undertake considerable emotion work in the creation of new moral identities. The book points to the often gendered responsibilities for sustaining family lives post separation, and how these reflect extensive inequalities in family practices. The author concludes that divorce is not dangerous for society; it is not a social evil or a demonstration of the rise of selfish individualism, and that divorcees remain committed to former partners and children long after divorce. This book will be of interest to scholars and students in the areas of Sociology, Psychology, Family Studies, Social Policy, Social Work and Law.

Elena Moore

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