Daughter of The Sea

This started life as a 2000 word opening to a romance using the prompt ‘The Girl From The Sea’ for the Romantic Novelists Association conference a few years ago. I won and it got printed in the magazine but I’d fallen in love with the concept and characters by then and didn’t want to leave it alone. I met with Charlotte Ledger at another conference a few years later and pitched it to her and she loved it. It’s set in a village based on Robin Hood’s Bay just along the coast from Whitby, an area I spent loads of time in as a child. Lachlan’s hut is located round about where the Youth Hostel is now. Walter Danby, Effie’s friend is a nod to the Danby family in The Blacksmith’s Wife, Redeeming the Rogue Knight and A Midsummer Knight’s Kiss. I’m not sure which branch of the family he would be descended from but I like the thought that they kept going into Victorian times.

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On a windswept British coastline the tide bestows an unexpected gift…

It was the cry that she first noticed, the plaintive wail that called to her over the crash of winter waves. Wrapped only in a sealskin, the baby girl looks up at Effie and instantly captures her heart.

Effie has always been an outcast in her village, the only granddaughter of a woman people whisper is a witch, so she’s used to a solitary existence. But when Midsummer arrives so too does a man claiming to be the child’s father. Effie is surprised when he asks her to continue looking after his daughter, mysteriously refusing to explain why. When he returns six months hence she pushes him for answers. And Lachlan tells a story she never anticipated … one of selkies, legend, and the power of the sea…

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