A Sweet Sting of Salt A Novel

Rose Sutherland

eBook - 2024

A young woman uncovers a dark secret about her neighbor and his mysterious new wife. Now she’ll have to fight to keep herself—and the woman she loves—safe.“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.”—PasteWhen 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 onl...y 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... more