Betraying the Mermaid Bride: The Return to the Frog Curse

Genre: Western Fantasy / Dark Romance / Karma Payback

Tags: Mermaid, Pirate Lords, Revenge, Dark Romance, Abyssal Lord, Frog Curse, Karma Payback, Shared Bride Betrayal, Female Protagonist, High Fantasy

Ten years ago, Princess Marina of the Azure Depths severed her celestial mermaid tail using ancient abyssal sorcery to brew the moon-tide elixir, breaking the repulsive amphibian curse inflicted upon the five sons of Pirate King Blackbeard: Elden, Lucian, Garrett, Dorian, and Jesse. In gratitude, the five brothers swore an unbreakable blood pact to honor, protect, and take her as their shared bride. Unknown to the arrogant brothers, the sea’s ancient magic dictated that only their perpetual devotion and final matrimonial bond to Marina could seal their human bodies forever.

Over ten years of ruling the coastal city of Port Stormhaven, the brothers grew intoxicatingly wealthy and arrogant. They fell hopelessly under the sway of Vivien, a deceitful tavern courtesan who whispered poison into their ears. Blaming Marina’s limp and quiet nature, the brothers humiliated Marina, stripped her of her royal ocean jewels, locked her in the cold salt cellars, and demanded she serve Vivien like a common maid.

On the eve of the grand gala where the five brothers intend to crown Vivien their collective lady, they publicly tear the sacred marriage contract in front of Port Stormhaven’s nobility, demanding Marina crawl into the sea and drown. But Marina sheds her final tear—which crystallizes into an abyssal black pearl. Summoned by her call of broken faith, Davy Jones, the immortal Lord of the Abyssal Fleet, rises from the maelstrom. Marina accepts Davy Jones’ obsidian engagement ring. As Davy Jones crowns her the Abyssal Queen, the ocean’s curse rebounds upon the five traitors. Their skin turns mottled green and warty, their limbs warp into webbed paws, and their voices degrade into croaks, leaving them trapped as hideous swamp frogs forever while Vivien abandons them in panic.