During the summer of 1988, Allie Jo, whose family runs an antebellum Florida hotel, meets Chase, who is staying there with his father, and they become friends when they discover a mysterious teenager hiding on the grounds of the hotel.
A ship captain steals a selkie's seal skin and marries her, but their marriage is unhappy since she is unable to return to the sea without the skin. When their child is a boy, he finds the skin and takes it down to the water, and is carried into the place of his dreams.
On remote Rollrock Island, men go to sea to make their livings--and to catch their wives. The witch Misskaella knows the way of drawing a girl from the heart of a seal, of luring the beauty out of the beast.
"On remote Rollrock Island, men go to sea to make their livings--and to catch their wives. The witch Misskaella knows the way of drawing a girl from the heart of a seal, ofluring the beauty out of the beast, and for a price a man may buy himself a lovely sea-wife."--Provided by publisher.
Eleven-year-old Gavin, devastated when his beloved grandfather suffers a massive stroke, recalls that Grandad had been speaking about the selkies--magical seal people--at the moment of his attack, and sets out to see if the selkies can help him reach his comatose grandfather.
Eleven-year-old Kyna, terrified of water since her family drowned in a storm that nearly took her life as well, works to overcome her phobia when her adoptive parents, Irish immigrants with a mysterious past, rent a cabin on Lake Champlain for the summer.
While at sea during a freak storm near his island home in the far north, a fisherman finds a baby girl, and though he and his wife love her as their own, they realize that they may not be able to keep her from returning to the sea.
When sixteen-year-old Elin Jean finds a seal pelt hidden at home and realizes that her mother is actually a selkie, she returns the pelt to her mother, only to find her life taking many unexpected turns.
Orphaned Corinna disguises herself as a boy to pose as a Folk Keeper, one who keeps the Evil Folk at bay, and discovers her heritage as a seal maiden when she is taken to live with a wealthy family in their manor by the sea.
