Synopsis

A selkie warrior, a newly transfigured selkie princess…what happens to love when loyalties clash? 

Ceannas, a selkie warrior, must protect his clan during the Migration, a rite of passage that occurs every 50 years. When he discovers a runaway selkie, the daughter of his Prince, he must figure out a way to divide his duties, especially when keeping her alive demands all his attention.

Lyall wants desperately to find out where she belongs. When the opportunity comes to visit the Great Elder and save her father’s damaged sealskin, she sneaks away to join the clan in their migration. The only problem? Being born a human, she hasn’t the first clue how to survive on her own as a selkie!

The last thing Ceannas needs is babysitting duties, and Lyall only has eyes on her mission. But as Ceannas teaches Lyall how to exist in her new element, the attraction growing between them grows stronger. Can their love withstand their honor-bound duties? And what will it cost each of them to do so?

Saving the Selkie’s Heart is a sexy guardian/ward paranormal romance and the second book in The Selkie Seas series by Ella Rose. Get lost in love today!

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Praise

“This was a dazzling novel that had everything I look for in a paranormal romance and more! Even the setting of the Hebrides Islands in Scotland created a scintillating atmosphere that pulled me in and wrapped me up in the story.”-Nora, StpreyBook Reviews

“This book was filled with intrigue, magic and blazing attraction! I loved watching Ronan and Una’s friendship grow as well as their romantic feelings. This was the perfect fall read for me!”-Bee, BookPleasures.com

“A fun novel with a great HEA. I am looking forward to finishing the prequel. More fun awaits!”- John P., Amazon

“Stealing the Selkie’s Heart is a cute love story between a fisherman’s widow and a selkie warrior. one of the funniest utilizations of romance novel “logic” we’ve read in a while. It’s also fun to read along with the “whodunnit” portion of the book. If you like your PNR on the short, cute, & sweet side, this is a fun one to read.”- Meg Richmond, Reedsy Discovery

Guest Review by Nora

A paranormal romance with just the right combination of sweet, cute, and sexy.

‘Saving the Selkie’s Heart’ is the second book in Elle Rose’s ‘The Selkie Seas’ series and takes place just weeks after the events of the first book. Having read that book, I was pretty excited for this one, and it did not disappoint!

The romance between Lyall and Ceannas tugged at my heartstrings and made me want to keep reading well after my bedtime. But even apart from the romance, I really appreciated Lyall as a strong female main character and for the harrowing journey that she undertook to save her father’s life.

Lyall decides that she must seek out the wisest member of her family’s selkie clan so that the Great Elder might save her father, but there’s only one problem. Lyall isn’t a selkie like her parents are. She doesn’t have the ability to transform into a seal. Or, at least, she thinks that she doesn’t. But with a little help from strong, capable Ceannas, who is guarding the clan as they migrate for the first time in 50 years, Lyall begins to realize her selkie destiny and take charge of it in her own way.

It’s pretty clear from Ella Rose’s writing that she knows how to write one heck of a romance, as well as build a world around it that will leave the reader invested in even the minor characters. Not every author is capable of that, and her books are worth the read for the world-building alone.

This book was such a good read that, despite the fact that it is not short, I read it all the way through in one night. I just couldn’t put it down! This series is perfection, and I recommend picking up both books! I can hardly wait for book 3!

Guest Post from Ella

Thank you for graciously hosting me today. As you know, my Selkie Seas series—Losing the Selkie’s Skin (Book 0.5), Stealing the Selkie’s Heart (Book 1), and Saving the Selkie’s Heart (Book 2)—revolves around the lives of selkies and other sea creatures in the historical Scottish town of Selbane. But most of the people I encounter have no idea what a selkie is! So, I’m here to set the record straight on these kickass creatures.

Here are 5 Things You Need to Know About the Selbane Selkies:

1. Selkies are seal shapeshifters, according to Scottish folklore. But unlike most shapeshifters, selkies wear their sealskin like a cape: it goes around their shoulders and fastens down the front of the torso by way of small hooks that fasten together. To shape change into a seal, they put their sealskin on and fasten the hooks; to change back into a human again, they unhook the fasteners with their teeth and emerge from beneath the sealskin as a naked human.
2. If selkies are born when their parents are in human form, they appear as human, too, and are unable to change into selkies until they reach twenty-two years of age. There is a chance, however, that they may not be capable of changing at all, which is a problem for my heroine, Lyall, in Saving the Selkie’s Heart. It is more common for selkies to be born when their parents were in seal form, thus ensuring their offspring are born as seals and able to change into human form at will.
3. Selkies are bound to their sealskins by magic. In my Selkie Seas world, selkies feel a constant “tug” towards their sealskin when they are in their human form, which allows them to geographically locate the skin while they are separated from it. But if someone else touches the sealskin, the magic connection switches to the new owner, and the selkie can no longer tell where it is. This allows a human (such as my heroine, Una, in Stealing the Selkie’s Heart) to bind a selkie to herself for as long as she wishes, until she returns the skin to the selkie.
4. Selkies have their own magic, aside from the connection to their sealskins. The Selkie Seas characters (which all belong to the same group, Liath Clann), all speak of a mythological creature called a buidseach. The buidseach is a sort of selkie witch, a female selkie who can command all manner of magic. While the king and queen of Liath Clann, as well as the Great Elder from Saving the Selkie’s Heart, have their own special gifts, only a buidseach is considered to have true, strong magical abilities, like restorative healing powers or using glamour to appear in different human forms. Such a creature is said, among Liath Clann, to be mythical, but some brave characters manage to interact with them and come out unscathed on the other side.
5. It is possible for selkies to find their True Mate, the other half of their soul. Such a connection is only rumored to exist, usually in the form of a story told by the friend of a friend whose cousin’s sister heard about a pair of True Mates once long ago. The True Mate connection can be hinted at when the proper pair is in close proximity of each other, and it feels like a second set of lungs breathing or hearts beating just out of sync with each other. To fully solidify the True Mate bond, the couple must climax together during intimacy. Once in place, the True Mate bond allows the couple to send glimpses of emotion and strong feelings down the bond to each other, though they cannot read minds.

Those are just a hint of some of the intricacies that comprise the inhabitants of Selbane. As always, if you have selkie questions or curiosities about the Selkie Seas world, email me! You can always catch me at ellarose@ellarosebooks.com.

Best,

Ella Rose

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About the Author

Ella Rose is a paranormal romance author who loves kink, ink, and cake, and hopes you do too. She is a bi-sexual author writing through a Bi-Polar Disorder lens and thinks representation and mental health matter. She is the author of The Selkie Seas series, which includes Losing the Selkie’s Skin and Stealing the Selkie’s Heart.

Her latest selkie short stories will appear in Dark Rose Press’s Worlds Apart and Dragon Soul Press’s Beyond Atlantis anthologies. She is a member of Romance Writers of America and the Paranormal Romance Guild.

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