There are those who say sirens, wild, beautiful, deadly creatures, half-bird, half-human, lured fishermen to their deaths by leading them away from lighthouses, into sharp, deadly rocks, using their beautiful voices.
There are those who say sirens are beautiful creatures, mermaid-like ones, that sing to the fishermen tales of others. These fishermen are so infatuated with the beautiful creatures that they come closer, closer, to the mermaid-like animals. Enticed, entranced, ensnared with the beauty of both body and voice, these fishermen leap from their boats and drown in the swarm of waiting shredding teeth and powerful fins.
But what these tales don't portray is the truth. Their crafty cousins, mermaids, are the deadly destructive ones, the ones that legends have painted as sirens. Sirens have no interest in the deaths of the fishermen. They care only for each other, and for hunting for their long lost mistress, Persephone.
It's been hundreds of years, though, since the last true sighting of Persephone, held deep in Hade's supposedly merciless clutches. The three Sirens (Meara, Himeropa, and Libertina) have now turned their focus to more earthly concerns: pollution, destruction, death, and the like.
Follow Meara, one of the three sirens of legend, as she races to save her sister from the clutches of the merfolk, finding quests and answers to hard questions along the way.
Things aren't always easy under the water.
Ray is low on time, luck, and hope; his only chance is an artifact that may not even exist. But upon meeting Landon, Ray is beginning to believe he might find all four.
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Cambions are doomed to tragedy. They are weak, sickly creatures that rarely live to see their twentieth year. Ray refuses to resign himself to that fate. Upon learning of the Crimson Sheath-an artifact capable of preserving his life-Ray is prepared to fight, steal, and kill to get his hands on it. He is not prepared for Landon. Landon is an orphan with no memories of his parents, the only inheritance left to him a dagger, sleeping in a crimson sheath. Though he has no love of bloodshed and no use for a dagger, Landon isn't about to let Ray take his only link to his forgotten history, even if that means following the cambion past the edge of the world and into the shadow beyond.
Content Warnings: Violence, semi-graphic gore, character deaths, profanity, mild drug and alcohol usage, abuse discussed but not shown, and morally-questionable people doing morally-questionable things.