Sea of Souls by N. C. Scrimgeour

Free-spirited Isla Blackwood has never accepted the shackles of her family’s nobility. Instead, she sails the open water, searching for belonging on the waves.

But when tragedy forces Isla home, she realises she can no longer escape the duty she’s been running from. Selkie raiders plague the island’s coasts, and when they strike at Blackwood Estate, Isla has no choice but to flee.

To reclaim her home, Isla will have to set aside her grief and join forces with an exiled selkie searching for a lost pelt. The heirloom might be the key to stopping the raids—but only if they can steal it from the island’s most ruthless selkie hunter, the Grand Admiral himself.

Forging an unlikely friendship with the selkie who should have been her enemy, Isla must decide once and for all where her loyalties lie if she wants to save what’s left of her family—and find the belonging she’s searching for.

Category: Dark Fantasy