Tara Maya's Tales

  Excerpt from The Seastead Girl : My heart pounded in my chest as the three of us flapped our flippers toward the juvenile whale. Even though the juvenile was small for a humpback, it was still so huge that I felt like Thumbelina compared to the whale. I was surprised to see a number of fish swirling around the whale, as if they were paparazzi pursuing a celebrity. Then I recognized them as sucker fish, whale suckers. We had studied them earlier this week, in preparation for our whale watch. They were also called remora. They were not exactly parasites, but they were annoyances to whales. This baby was unable to defend itself against the little hitchhikers, and so dozens of them had started to follow it. About half of them were attached by their suckers, and the other half were swimming nearby. Although I had my oxygen tube hooked up I almost forgot to breathe. Kaplan swim within a foot of the whale’s head, meeting its gaze with his own. From where I was, I could see the intellige...

  Sami leaves behind her whole life when her family moves to a seastead--an artificial island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. And the day she arrives, she overhears the hottest guy there secretly planning to oust her family from the island. But two can play that game. Sami isn’t going to let any guy push around her family. Or her. No matter how gorgeous he is… This is a stand-alone Young Adult Romance Science Fiction novel in the world of the Seastead Adventures. EXCERPT FROM THE SEASTEAD GIRL :  The welcoming train arrived at the center of the seastead. In the hub clustered a number of large buildings, some of which looked like warehouses, some like factories, and one which proclaimed itself as the Sea Crest Grand Hotel. Next to the Grand Hotel was a huge swimming pool with water slides and fountains, like something you’d find at a small waterpark or on a cruise ship. However, the waterpark disappeared from view as the train pulled in front of the entrance to the G...