A Sweet Sting of Salt

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"A modern sapphic updating of the selkie wife folk tale that's already scoring with readers"-Parade (A Best Romance and Best LGBTQI+ Book of the Year So Far) "Lush, atmospheric, and threaded with multiple kinds of magic."-Paste AN ELLE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR When a sharp cry wakes Jean in the middle of the night during a terrible tempest, she's convinced it must have been a dream. But when the cry comes again, Jean ventures outside and is shocked by what she discovers-a young woman in labor, drenched to the bone in the bitter cold and able to speak barely a word of English. Although Jean is the only midwife for miles around, she's at a loss for who this woman is or where she's from; Jean can only assume that she must be the new wife of the neighbor up the road, Tobias. And when Tobias does indeed arrive at her cabin in search of his wife, Muirin, Jean's questions continue to multiply. Why has he kept his wife's pregnancy a secret? And why does Muirin's open demeanor change completely the moment she's in ...