A dead-end job in a dying bayou or a bright future literally anywhere else? Gosh, such a hard choice!Lainey Jane - please, call her LJ - absolutely needs to escape from her abusive family. She can't believe her luck when, after three years working any job that will keep her out of town, she joins the staff of a cruise-ship liner. Even better, it leads to a job offer that could finally bring her the future of her dreams: three days as a mermaid for a little girl's birthday party and LJ gets everything she needs to buy a house and live happily ever after.Only one teeny, tiny, sand dollar-sized problem. The birthday girl with mermaid aspirations? Her uncle is the wickedly hot, very off-limits, Marcus "Mako" Dupre, bad boy of LJ's hometown. And trouble follows him wherever he goes.LJ just didn't suspect that it would come with strings capable of entangling her in a past with consequences she'd do anything to avoid...If only someone was around to help.Come enjoy another adventure in the wildly popular All I Want For Christmas series, standalone paranormal romances full of wit, humor and determination to overcome the odds!