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My latest novel (my first full-length published novel) is too spicy for Japan, it seems. I rated it 4+ on both scales in my announcement here, even with some fade-to-black scenes among the spicy maple-syrup adventures. YOU ARE MY WATER, MY WORLD (https://www.amazon.com/You-Are-My-Water-World-ebook/dp/B0GY7Z4GVT) Kelvin retires from a successful tech career a decade or two early, settling in a small town on the Northern California coast. Some civic involvement, a home gym he's always wanted, a slowly intensifying flirtation with the town's cute librarian... nothing too severe. Until he sees her. The woman in the cove, sparkling in the morning light, has to be a mirage. Kelvin believes this until she leaves hints that she's been in his home, and lets him find her in his bed thinking about him. An utterly improbable connection draws Kelvin into a centuries-old underwater culture and family, intensifying the relationship with the librarian in the process, and changing all their lives in ways they'd never imagined. The drama that led to the woman in the cove finding Kelvin reveals old family rifts beneath the sea, leading to Kelvin defying expectations above and below the water and claiming (and being claimed by) a harem of unusually compatible women. And as Kelvin is drawn into the underwater world, old conflicts and politics emerge from the water and pull him farther into his new family's history... and future. YOU ARE MY WATER, MY WORLD is a contemporary semi‑paranormal harem romance set in a small coastal California town, blending small‑town domestic life with explicit erotic scenes, ethical non‑monogamy, paranormal evolution, and a complicated mythical family under the waves.