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    Pearls of Sea and Stone: Book of Seals: A Selkies' Skins Story
    Selkies' Skins: Castle and Well: Book One
    Audiobook series2 titles

    Selkies' Skins Series

    Written by Teresa Garcia

    Narrated by Teresa Garcia and Illya Leonov

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    About this series

    Kirstin Makay is a half-selkie and a witch who must train for the quest to gain her own skin. In the library of Castle Carrick's merstudies section she finds "The Book of Seals," part mythology and part guidebook bearing a strange cover that feels oddly familiar. On reading she discovers a trove of Selkies myths recorded by a Father Liam Ronan at the Our Lady of the Sea Abbey in 300 A.D. Is the scribe a selkie, or just a sympathizer toward the specie? What can Kirsty learn about her selkie heritage from this ancient book that she can't learn from other sources?

    Perhaps it's a good thing that all books placed in the library routinely have preservation spells on them to slow decay.

    We join Kirsty for part of her second year at Castle Carrick and read along with her to learn the secrets Father Ronan sought to preserve.

    A prequel to the "Selkies' Skins" series which briefly crosses over with the "Dragon Shaman" series.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTHG StarDragon Publishing
    Release dateOct 7, 2014
    Pearls of Sea and Stone: Book of Seals: A Selkies' Skins Story
    Selkies' Skins: Castle and Well: Book One

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      Selkies' Skins: Castle and Well: Book One
      Selkies' Skins: Castle and Well: Book One

      Selkies' Skins: Castle and Well: Book One

      Teresa Garcia
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      Selkies are Scottish seal people, and are considered magical shapeshifting creatures, able to interbreed with humans. Spoken of in many old stories, the females are said to make caring wives, and the men to be charming and good lovers. If their skin is captured, they will remain on land, though more is heard about women being captured than the men. If they find their stolen skin, they will return to the sea and any mate or family therein, though remaining nearby to watch over their land-children. What happens though, if a Selkie never manages to reclaim her skin before her death, and so remains with her children? What happens if her family is a magical one, and her subspecies had been created by the cooperation of sister water goddesses? Further, what if the drive to return to the sea remains strong in the offspring, and as servants of these goddesses, provide their care despite being disliked and untrusted by both full blooded Selkies and humans when found out. We come then to modern times. First a fishing family, favored then by fortune and Marsali's magic, the Makay clan grew to a merchant family that went on grand voyages for the good of the Magical Community. Few now remain, and those are now waterwitches, primarily interested in tending duties set by deities that few believe actually exist, and the health of the waters both locally and planet wide. Kirsty has little choice in her fate, only how it will manifest. There are tests to pass, a place that she may have to occupy prematurely if her visions prove true, and a need to earn her sealskin to be complete. Will Etain return safe to port, and will Kirsty survive her training and test? There are complications along the way, will she be able to stay on the course she's trying to set? In this first book of what is intended to be a trilogy Kirsty must ultimately go down the Lady's well for the first of her tests of fitness, while also having to balance school, family, and a certain lad.

      Selkies are Scottish seal people, and are considered magical shapeshifting creatures, able to interbreed with humans. Spoken of in many old stories, the females are said to make caring wives, and the men to be charming and good lovers. If their skin is captured, they will remain on land, though more is heard about women being captured than the men. If they find their stolen skin, they will return to the sea and any mate or family therein, though remaining nearby to watch over their land-children. What happens though, if a Selkie never manages to reclaim her skin before her death, and so remains with her children? What happens if her family is a magical one, and her subspecies had been created by the cooperation of sister water goddesses? Further, what if the drive to return to the sea remains strong in the offspring, and as servants of these goddesses, provide their care despite being disliked and untrusted by both full blooded Selkies and humans when found out. We come then to modern times. First a fishing family, favored then by fortune and Marsali's magic, the Makay clan grew to a merchant family that went on grand voyages for the good of the Magical Community. Few now remain, and those are now waterwitches, primarily interested in tending duties set by deities that few believe actually exist, and the health of the waters both locally and planet wide. Kirsty has little choice in her fate, only how it will manifest. There are tests to pass, a place that she may have to occupy prematurely if her visions prove true, and a need to earn her sealskin to be complete. Will Etain return safe to port, and will Kirsty survive her training and test? There are complications along the way, will she be able to stay on the course she's trying to set? In this first book of what is intended to be a trilogy Kirsty must ultimately go down the Lady's well for the first of her tests of fitness, while also having to balance school, family, and a certain lad.

    • Pearls of Sea and Stone: Book of Seals: A Selkies' Skins Story
      Pearls of Sea and Stone: Book of Seals: A Selkies' Skins Story

      Pearls of Sea and Stone: Book of Seals: A Selkies' Skins Story

      Teresa Garcia
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      Kirstin Makay is a half-selkie and a witch who must train for the quest to gain her own skin. In the library of Castle Carrick's merstudies section she finds "The Book of Seals," part mythology and part guidebook bearing a strange cover that feels oddly familiar. On reading she discovers a trove of Selkies myths recorded by a Father Liam Ronan at the Our Lady of the Sea Abbey in 300 A.D. Is the scribe a selkie, or just a sympathizer toward the specie? What can Kirsty learn about her selkie heritage from this ancient book that she can't learn from other sources? Perhaps it's a good thing that all books placed in the library routinely have preservation spells on them to slow decay. We join Kirsty for part of her second year at Castle Carrick and read along with her to learn the secrets Father Ronan sought to preserve. A prequel to the "Selkies' Skins" series which briefly crosses over with the "Dragon Shaman" series.

      Kirstin Makay is a half-selkie and a witch who must train for the quest to gain her own skin. In the library of Castle Carrick's merstudies section she finds "The Book of Seals," part mythology and part guidebook bearing a strange cover that feels oddly familiar. On reading she discovers a trove of Selkies myths recorded by a Father Liam Ronan at the Our Lady of the Sea Abbey in 300 A.D. Is the scribe a selkie, or just a sympathizer toward the specie? What can Kirsty learn about her selkie heritage from this ancient book that she can't learn from other sources? Perhaps it's a good thing that all books placed in the library routinely have preservation spells on them to slow decay. We join Kirsty for part of her second year at Castle Carrick and read along with her to learn the secrets Father Ronan sought to preserve. A prequel to the "Selkies' Skins" series which briefly crosses over with the "Dragon Shaman" series.

    Author

    Teresa Garcia

    Teresa Garcia (once Teresa Huddleston-Garcia) is a 30-something mother of two children with special needs, raising them "alone" in the small mountain town of McCloud, CA. Just because she is on her own though, does not mean that she is "alone." Many thanks are due to the McCloud Community Resource Center, to her brother and his family, and her mother, for all their help. She loves to text role play, write stories, hike, paint, meditate, and play games or read with her kids. She also writes quests for, and helps to maintain, the online browser-based RPG Dragon Hearts. As Amehana, Teresa volunteers time for the Trotsdale Public Library in Second Life. She was raised in another mountain community, which she visits as often as she can spare time and gas, though not nearly often enough for her wishes. Her parents always encouraged her writing and artistic talents. In 2005, she decided to pick up the dream of writing and publishing a novel once more, having shelved that (and the "Shadow Chronicles" manuscript) in her early college years due to the time constraints of motherhood at the time. In 2006 she released to the public her first novel in the "Dragon Shaman" series, "Taming the Blowing Wind," and has since published a second book in the series and a poetry book. She likes to deal with multicultural themes because of her own background. Currently Teresa has several manuscripts to work on, such as her "Dragon Shaman" series of novels and her current favorite serialized story, "Selkies' Skins." She is also currently narrating "The Ian's Realm Saga" trilogy by DL Gardner, expected to be available April 2018. Teresa writes short stories for children in the Adventures of Lightning the Cat series. Her other titles are intended for more advanced readers. Her personal blog is located at http://rainstardragon.livejournal.com You can check out what she has available for her patrons at her Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/Amehana In addition to finding her in print on Lulu, she can be found at Amazon Author Central. http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B009Q938VE

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