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Beyond the Sea

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Sela Eagleshield has always been drawn to the sea.
 
Despite her mother's stories of spiteful monsters luring people from their village to their untimely deaths, and the rocky waves that meet the shoreline, she still finds herself drawn to the water. But one day, while visiting the sea, she stumbles across an injured creature with the tail of a fish and the chest of a man. Immediately, she takes him back to her village and brings him back to health.

Sela and the prince of the ocean, Kael, find intrigue in each other's worlds, and teach each other the ways of the land and the ocean. The longer they spend together, the deeper their feelings grow for one another, and the more complicated their lives become. For neither of them belong in the other's world. 

And to top it all off, a storm is coming. A storm neither the people of the land nor the people of the sea are ready to face with an oncoming threat looming over their heads. Together, Sela and Kael must find a way to get their people to work together to face those who seek to destroy their ways of life. 

Will Sela and Kael find a way to be together? Will they pick a world they both feel they equally belong to? And above all, will they succeed in fighting off the threat coming for all of them? 

Find out in Beyond the Sea.

Coming October 2024!All Rights Reserved

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