title: The Summons
author: Ivancic, Marj W.
description: Seven tears cried into the sea. Notes of a love song, to summon a selkie.That is the myth, the yarn the old men spin in the glow of a warm fire on a dark winter night. Such stories are as common as the seals basking on the beaches of their northern Scottish isle.Or so Moire believes. She could never quite identify with the forlorn lasses in those tales. She has everything she could possible need or want in the simple life she and her father have built on the quiet shores.Until, learning she may be forced to marry a man she does not love, she sheds her own hopeless tears into the cold surf.And the next day, a curious stranger walks out of those same waters.Everything about Innis calls to Moire; he is as wild and beautiful as her beloved sea. But there's something he's hiding.Is he the salvation he appears to be? Or a danger to her soul?With only seven days' time to decide, will she surrender to the irresistible pull of Innis and his sea or choose to remain on the safe shores of home?