Sirens
Katherine Blake
Paperback
A thing is born in the darkness. Down deep it is ugly but on the surface it is beautiful. The sirens, a clan of mermaids, are released to do Simiyith, the seadragon spirit's bidding and drown all passing sailors. When Maia, one newborn, rejects their way of living, refusing to eat fish meat and feeling sympathy, perhaps love, for one of the drowned men unforeseen consequences begin to change their very existence as she goes on a journey to retrieve his soul from the underworld...with Simiyith's spirit hot on her fins...