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Thursday, April 30, 2026

Review: Fathoms Deep: A Blood Shadow Novel (Blood Never Lies) by Dianna Hardy @TheWitchingPen

Fathoms Deep: A Blood Shadow Novel

Blood Never Lies

by Dianna Hardy

Published: April 30, 2026

Publisher: Satin Smoke Press

Genre: Dark Fantasy, Fairy Tales, Legends, Myths, Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Paranormal Romance, Romance, Shifters

 

Blurb:


Darkly passionate and intense...

Amid the white-washed houses that decorate the beautiful island of Santorini, Greece, lies an ancient secret that will pull Laura and Roman fathoms deep into an atrocity obscured by mythology, and buried by aristocracy...

Laura is half-werewolf and half-siren, made 'siren' accidentally by the human male who saved her life five years ago with his breath of life – his siren breath.

Roman Dalton is human and the only known male to carry the siren gene. Although he cannot fully form into his aquatic counterpart, he suffers the torturous effects of his compromised DNA every full moon when the tides are high – effects which have been steadily growing worse.

Posing as man and wife, and battling their own villainous shadows from a past best left drowned, the reluctant couple find themselves in Santorini, about to embark on a deadly mission to uncover more about the elusive siren in the hopes of finding a cure. For Roman was never meant to carry the siren gene and certainly never meant to pass it on to a she-wolf.

Their answers might dwell among the vegetation of the monastic Mount Athos...

But there are people – very important people – who would rather some secrets remain hidden forever.

If Laura and Roman make it to Mount Athos, they may never make it back out.

Publisher's Note: This novel continues Laura and Roman's story from Blood Shadow (Blood Never Lies), which should ideally be read first. Despite character origins to the Eye of the Storm series, Fathoms Deep is mostly a separate entity from that series.


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My Review:

Fathoms Deep captured my attention from the beginning and held on until the end, with no dull moments in between. I was pulled deep into Laura’s world the moment it began for me, first in Blood Shadow and now in Fathoms Deep.

Fathoms Deep has so many twists that I never knew what to expect next, even though I tried to figure it out many times. I love the Blood Never Lies series, where I first met Laura, or the person she was known as then.

I have sorely enjoyed getting to know more about Laura’s world, who she is, and who she has become. Fathoms Deep is a very interesting and riveting story that kept the pages turning.

Page after page, I kept trying my best to figure out more of Laura’s story, but with each turn of the page, I found that I was wrong, which made the story even more mesmerizing.

While reading Fathoms Deep, I kept having memories of Lydia and her story, and I kept expecting Laura's to be very similar, but boy, was I wrong again, as their stories are both so unique in many different ways.

I loved getting to know Laura and Roman and their stories. Fathoms Deep is told from more than one point of view. It is told from Laura’s and Roman’s points of view, of course, and from the points of view of the people who were hunting Laura.

Awe, now why are they hunting Laura? What do they want with her? So many questions that can only be answered by reading Fathoms Deep, of course. Grab a copy today to find out.  


Check out all the books in the Blood Never Lies Series I’ve read.


Blood Shadow #1

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Aftershock #2

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Fathoms Deep

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