[Undertow Blog Tour] An Outtake from Undertow by Callie Kingston

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About Undertow

Undertow

by Callie Kingston

Reality is slipping away as Marissa sinks deeper into an abyss. Only truth and love can bring her back from the edge.

While she slept on a desolate beach on the wild Oregon coast, a rogue wave pulled her out to sea. Now Marissa dreams each night of a merman who rescued her. Obsessed, she risks her life once again in the frigid ocean. Will Marissa recover or remain forever lost in the eddies inside her mind?

Sometimes, the deadliest dangers lie within.

An Outtake

Overhead, wispy tendrils delicately reached across a gray-blue sky. Marissa blinked. Ouch. The sand ground against her eyes like bits of glass. Instinctively, she rubbed her fists in them, and groaned at the sharp pain. Distant cries of seabirds filtered in and she rolled her head toward the sound, squinting to make out the blurred outline of a sea stack some miles off toward her left. Slowly, she turned to face the other direction. Everything was a surreal, indistinct mass of greens and grays. She must have lost her contacts in the water. The memory rushed over her like the waves. I was in the water. The ocean. Fast on its heels came another thought: that’s impossible, I’d be dead.


Marissa maneuvered herself into an upright position, gingerly stretching her stiff muscles and twisting from side to side. She was in roughly the same location she had been before…before what? Before she drowned? Or, imagined she did? Confused, Marissa struggled to reconcile two facts: one, she vividly remembered getting sucked into the ocean and fighting for her life, unable to surface, and two, she’d be dead for sure if that had actually happened. Either the cold or the water would have done her in. No way could she have survived being dragged into the ocean and trapped by the current for more than a few minutes at best. But Marissa was definitely not dead. Unless one found themselves exactly where they were before they died, she thought, except everything was just really fuzzy.


About Callie

Callie Kingston lives in the Pacific Northwest with an assortment of furry creatures, including her husband. She holds a masters degree in psychology. When not writing, she likes to explore the outdoors, especially the forests and beaches along the Oregon coast. She also enjoys a great cup of cappuccino, which happily is easily found in her part of the world.

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