What would you do to win your freedom and save your loved ones?
Life isn’t better under the sea – a grim reality known to all of the mystical races that swim in the realm beneath the waves. It’s also why so many of them risk everything to escape.
None dream of freedom more than Chidi Etienne. Kidnapped from the surface world when she was young, her owner bound Chidi to the watery Salt realm by forcing her to wear a magical sealskin that grants the power of shapeshifting into the animal’s form. Chidi has suffered the life of a Selkie slave ever since.
But all of that is about to change . . .
After a merfolk king offers a royal bounty for the recapture of a dangerous fugitive, Chidi and a misfit crew of slave catchers are sent ashore to find the elusive runner. Succeed, and they’ll share in the reward to buy freedom for themselves and their families. If any among the crew doesn’t return or they come back empty-handed, however, their loved ones kept behind will pay for the failure with their lives.
But when the hunt leads to a deeper mystery and the possibility of greater riches for all, Chidi and the crew face a moral dilemma that threatens to tear their loyalties and families apart - what is the cost of one life worth against the needs of the many . . . and are any among them willing to pay the sacrificial price?
How each of them answers the question will teach the crew and Chidi the realm beneath the wave’s harshest truth of all - only through the loss of innocence does one become SALTED.
THE SELKIE CATCHERS is the first installment in an epic, coming-of-age fantasy adventure saga.
- ISBN10 1703733312
- ISBN13 9781703733310
- Publish Date 20 January 2020
- Publish Status Active
- Imprint Independently Published
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 164
- Language English