Alex was a boy who always pined for his fathers approval. Now, he shuffles through life, no real goal nor dreams ahead. He doesnt want a wife, children, a rich job, a farm, nor to be a war hero. Simply being is good enough for him. What will happen after a particularly nasty breakdown he did not expect, where he meets a Siren?
In most folk stories, to see a Siren is a death omen hanging over your head. They lure you in, singing of dreams and fantasies, killing you when you least expect it. Fun, huh? But, the Siren is bored - so when she meets a boy who she finds out doesnt have any dreams whatsoever, shes intruiged. And so, what does she do? befriend him of course!
Lifes about to get intresting for both of them. And Mary. Poor, poor Mary.
So come on this adventure, will they fall in love? will you skip over this book? will the Siren ever find out what happened to Alex's 8th birthday?
Spoiler Alert - no to all three questions!
A mysterious castaway. A Scottish hero determined to protect her. Can they survive the storm?
Cast adrift on the Indian Ocean, Maria carries a terrible secret. Wherever she goes, death soon follows, and she's powerless to prevent it.
William McGregor boarded the SS Trevessa in search of adventure, but he gets more than he bargained for when he saves the mysterious Maria from the sea. She can't tell them her tragic tale, so the superstitious sailors make up their own stories - and some would sacrifice her to the waves to save themselves from the coming storm.
When the sharks start circling and the storm closes in, are sirens more than just a myth?
A tiny taste of what's in store:
My defiance was futile. What did it get me? A small raft drifting across the Indian Ocean, with nothing but the sound of waves and the smell of salt and coal-smoke.
Smoke meant a ship. I was saved.
I squinted into the sunlight, but the waves hid the vessel from me. Maybe I was looking the wrong way. I didn't have the strength to sit up and see.
Rough hands seized me. I struggled, but my weakness won.
Blue eyes drifted above, the same colour as the ocean below. A tangle of wiry seaweed obscured the rest of the man's face.
"It's all right, lass. I'll take care of you."
Darkness took me first.
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