

After five years of being caged-in at school and with her call to the sea as strong as ever, she finally manages to run away to sea on board a ship captained by one of her father's competitors, and disguised as a boy. Hoping to stem his wild and willful daughter, Ellie is sent away to boarding school. Swimming out to the ship at anchor, she nearly drowns until she is saved by Daniel. Tired and alone, and yearning to embrace his humanity again, Daniel applies for a job on board Captain Winters' ship the Siren's Call.įor Elysandra (Ellie), the ten year-old daughter of Captain Winters, her pull to the sea is so strong that she will defy her father to hide on board his ship. Kicked out of home by his father when he was ten, Daniel has spent the last three years in his selkie form. Both experts in deception, they must find a way to trust each other if they are to have any hope of hunting down the captain’s killer.ĭaniel O’Roarke is a selkie, half-human half-seal. Years later, when the leader of a band of bloodthirsty pirates murders Captain Winters, Daniel and Elysandra’s lives come crashing back together with the force of a hurricane. However, his new captain’s first assignment has nothing at all to do with sailing, and everything to do with his headstrong young daughter. Daniel goes in search of a job and a sense of normalcy, earning himself a position aboard Captain Winter’s ship, The Siren's Call. After giving up on his humanity and spending three years in seal form, he decides to give his human side another chance.

Thanks to the cursed selkie blood coursing through his veins, Daniel O'Rourke needs the sea to survive. When her Privateer father continually refuses to allow his only daughter to sail, Ellie defies him, disguises herself as a boy, and goes in search of a captain who will give her a chance to prove her worth. Elysandra Winters has always yearned for a life of adventure on the rolling seas and is willing to do whatever it takes to fulfill her dream.
