About the Book

Book: The Locket’s Revenge (Chronicles of the Undersea Realm Book 2)

Author: L. E. Richmond

Genre: YA Fantasy (Little Mermaid Retelling)

Release date: October 22, 2024

A Trinket Could Unleash a Tempest

Locklyn Adair thought that finding the Sea Enchantress would lift her family’s curse. But the ramifications of her desire for a tail reach further than she could ever have dreamed. Now the entire Undersea Realm is in peril, as Circe, armed with the locket capable of controlling the Loch Ness monster, journeys to the North Sea in pursuit of revenge.

Darin Aalto’s specialty is tracking down treasure. When it looks as though a magical locket has fallen into evil hands, he joins Locklyn and her crew on an expedition to recover it, hoping to find a key to his past identity along the way. Despite having no memory of the Mermaid leading the quest, he wonders if she was more than a friend all along.

As a vengeful enchantress, fiery monster, and impending war threaten the Undersea Realm, Locklyn and Darin must decide what they are willing to sacrifice in order to stop the locket’s revenge.

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About the Author

L.E. Richmond was born and raised in the Pacific Northwest by an American writing teacher and a German bookseller. Her childhood largely consisted of imagining stories for her Playmobil

characters and checking out as many books from the library as would fit on six library cards. Now she spends her time chasing three little Muggles, reading aloud to the hazel-eyed young man who has her heart, and attempting to transfer the stories in her head into words for others. Her passion is for words and stories that thrill the soul, and she is endlessly amazed by the One who not only used words to bring this world into being but also crafted the most epic story of all time.

More from L.E.

Somebody is going to die. But they didn’t at first.

Minor spoiler alert, a character is going to die near the end of The Locket’s Revenge. But in my first draft of this story, this person didn’t die. It wasn’t until I was going back through and trying to flesh out the book a bit that I realized that this character needed to die. My family knows that I am a discovery writer, but they still laughed when I told them how so-and-so squeaked through alive on the first draft, but the death sentence came in the second one. To me, this is actually one of the most fun things about being a discovery writer. During the drafting process, I get to experience the story for the first time, just like any reader. Most of the time, I don’t actually know what is going to happen next. And I wouldn’t have it any other way.

Interview with the Author

1)What does success as an author look like to you?
I have two answers to this question. Firstly, as a Christian, true success will always hinge on following God’s leading in my life and bringing Him glory. I pray that every book I write will point to God and will glorify Him by being the best product of my abilities that I can produce. But I also have ambitions for my career as a writer, and the two big ones at the moment are to win a major award and to make enough money from my writing to contribute significantly to my family.

2)Which character did you connect to best in this book?
Honestly, I connected deeply with Darin in The Locket’s Revenge. I have never had amnesia, but I struggled badly with a clinical anxiety disorder throughout my teen years so the feeling of being at war with your own mind is very familiar to me.

3)What is your favorite Bible verse or life verse?
“O God, from my youth you have taught me, and I still proclaim your wondrous deeds. So even to old age and gray hairs, O God, do not forsake me, until I proclaim your might to another generation, your power to all those to come.” ~Psalm 71:17-18

4)What is your vacation spot?
Always the beach. My husband and I spent our honeymoon camping on the Oregon coast, and the ocean holds a huge piece of my heart. It’s surprising that I wrote a book about Mermaids, right?

5)What are you reading right now?
I am reading Deep Work by Cal Newport and Twelve Ways Your Phone is Changing You by Tony Reinke. Both are excellent works of nonfiction that dive into how to use technology without letting it become the ruling force in your life.