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The Selkie
HER MOTHER'S SKIN WAS STOLEN. NOW THE SEA WANTS HER BACK.
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COVENANT HARBOR, MAINE • JANUARY
THE SEAL WATCHES THE HOUSE.
THE LOCKED CHEST BREATHES.
HER FATHER KEPT THE KEY FOR THIRTY-TWO YEARS.
Fourteen-year-old Isla Thorne knows the winter harbor well enough to hear the tide turning. But the gray seal watching her mother's kitchen window—and the locked chest breathing in the attic—do not belong to any harbor rule she knows.
The chest holds a living seal skin. Her father has kept its key for thirty-two years. Returning it may restore her mother's freedom—and give her the power to leave.
As old ledgers reveal the compact Covenant Harbor forgot, Isla must help undo a captivity built into her own family without turning freedom into another choice made for someone else.
No claim made.
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- Maine coastal folkloric mystery
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