Love, Latte and Mutants by Sandra Cox is the 1st novel in her Mutants series of YA contemporary sci-fi intrigue adventures with strong f/m romantic elements starring genetically engineered hybrids striking back against the mysterious conspiratorial forces that created them, this installment featuring a girl with dolphin DNA and the accompanying special abilities (jumping through hoops? ramming sharks amidships?
) secretly living in hiding who has the obligatory encounter where she discovers that she is not the only one of her kind, etc., free courtesy of publisher Kensington's Lyrical Press imprint.
Apparently the 2nd novel continues the heroine's fight against her manipulative creators, and the 3rd gives a new perspective on her struggles from another POV (and couple).
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Description
Finding love is hard, even when you aren’t a mutant.
Like most seventeen-year-olds, Piper Dunn wants to blend in with the crowd. Having a blowhole is a definite handicap. A product of a lab-engineered mother with dolphin DNA, Piper spends her school days hiding her brilliant ocean-colored eyes and sea siren voice behind baggy clothing and ugly glasses. When Tyler, the new boy in school, zeroes in on her, ignoring every other girl vying for his attention, no one, including Piper, understands why...
Then Piper is captured on one of her secret missions rescuing endangered sea creatures and ends up in the same test center where her mother was engineered. There she discovers she isn’t the only one of her kind. Joel is someone she doesn’t have to hide from, and she finds herself drawn to the dolph-boy who shares her secrets. Talking to him is almost as easy as escaping from the lab. Deciding which boy has captured her heart is another story...