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One family. Three loves that will change their lives . . .
and whose destiny could change the world.
Follow their stories:
Caleb, the soldier, who returns from the desert to fall in love with a woman from the sea ;
Dylan, the loner, who must choose between the freedom of his mother's kind and the bonds of mortal love; and
Lucy, the dreamer, whose heart and fate are tangled with the sea king's son .
Set off the coast of Maine, the Children of the Sea series was inspired by the Celtic legends of the selkie, immortal creatures of the sea living apart from humankind but able to shape-shift into seductive human form.
About the books
In SEA WITCH, Margred, a selkie, is driven to the island of World's End by her desire for strong and steady police chief Caleb Hunter. Down-to-earth Caleb is bemused and bewitched by this beautiful stranger. But when a murderer begins targeting women on World's End, Caleb must face the terrible possibility that the killings are somehow connected to the mysterious Margred . . . and that the course of their love may threaten everything he believes in.SEA FEVER is the story of the older son, Dylan. At his brother's wedding, Dylan encounters caterer and single mom, Regina Barone. That night on the beach, swept away by loneliness and desire, Regina lets herself be seduced by the oh-so-hot brother of the groom.
Dylan is selkie-and selkies don't do commitment. But their drunken wedding hook up has consequences neither Dylan nor Regina could possibly imagine. Things really heat up . . . in more ways than one. Soon this mismatched couple must deal not only with their growing feelings but with a growing threat as well.
The most recent release is SEA LORD, Lucy's story.
Selkie prince Conn ap Llyr denies his deeply sensual nature to rule over the immortal Children of the Sea. But when the Children of Fire threaten the Selkies' Sanctuary, Conn must obey his haunting visions-and seek a woman half a world away.
Schoolteacher Lucy Hunter knows nothing about her Selkie heritage or the prophecy that drives Conn to find her. To combat Fire, Conn needs Lucy's magic-even if this means stealing her away to Sanctuary. As the demon threat grows, so does their passion, overcoming Lucy's fears and Conn's guarded heart. But soon they face a devastating choice. Will their love be enough to save them? Or will their destinies tear them apart?
There is also a prequel to the Children of the Sea stories,
"Sea Crossing," in the anthology SHIFTER,
a traditional selkie tale that introduces sea lord, Conn ap Llyr.
(Think Anne of Green Gables sails on the Titanic, but with hot sex!)
For more about the mythology behind the Children of the Sea,
see my Romance Novel TV interview
on the Videos page.
What's next?
Thanks to all you wonderful readers, the Children of the Sea series will continue!The next story will be a novella in the Burning Up anthology out next August with additional stories by the very talented Angela Knight and Nalini Singh (woo hoo!). No title yet, but it will be a historical, like the short in Shifter. "Shifting Sea" is a sexy fairy tale for grown ups, a siren story set in Regency Scotland with Morgan's twin Morwenna as the heroine and a to-die-for veteran of the Peninsular War as the hero.
After that, I'm writing Morgan's story (the finfolk warden from Sea Lord),
another contemporary set on the island of World's End. You'll definitely
get to see some familiar characters in that one as well as meeting the new
island doctor, Elizabeth Rodriguez.
IMMORTAL SEA.
October 2010
About the logo
The Children of the Sea logo is based on the Celtic triskelion.The triskelion, which is present in both Greek and Celtic cultures,
not only symbolizes the three aspects of the goddess
(mother, maiden, and wise woman),
but was adopted by the early Christian church as a sign of the Holy Trinity.
It can be found on ancient grave sites and jewelry.
The three connected spirals represent the realms of the overworld, underworld, and material world; or--and this is where my writer's brain caught fire--the domains of earth, sea, and sky.
In the mythology of the Children of the Sea, the elements exist in uneasy balance. The "elementals," the children of earth, sea, sky, and fire who came into being at the Creation, are sometimes in conflict. So when I went to New York to talk cover treatments with my fabulous editor, I told her I wanted to use a version of the triskelion for the series logo--earth, sea, and sky bound together in a powerful ward.
Tony Mauro, who did the fabulous cover art for the Children of the Sea series, talks about his process in Interview with Cover Artist Tony Mauro. Check it out!
About our oceans
In a sense, we are all children of the sea.Read more about the issues affecting our oceans at Ocean Conservancy
(meets the Better Business Bureau standards for Charity Accountability).
And learn Ten Things You Can Do To Save the Oceans.
