Skin Deep

After a painful divorce, Garland Durrell looks forward to settling into her home on Cape Cod to make the quilts that are her passion. On the first morning of her new life she finds a man and a small boy washed up on the beach, both badly wounded. Since the town chief of police is strangely reluctant to help, Garland takes on the care of the mysterious pair who don't seem to remember what happened to them--and feels her own heart begin to heal. Alasdair does remember. He and his son Conn are the last of the ruling family of selkies from the waters around the Cape, locked in a decades-long struggle with an evil that threatens all, selkie and human. He�s not sure if he can trust the lovely, blue-eyed woman who takes them in until he touches one of her quilts and feels the magic she�s sewn into it...and the emotions that he never thought he�d feel again. But the evil entity that stole Alasdair�s sealskin and left him for dead quickly senses both his presence and Garland�s magic, and is determined to destroy one and possess the other. Only Garland and her quilts, made with a power she barely believes she has, can save them all from destruction�if she can avoid being destroyed first. Burned by a painful divorce, Garland Durrell is thankful to escape to a small village on Cape Cod to lick her wounds and sew the quilts that are her passion. But battered by storms and haunted by inexplicable deaths, Mattaquason is not the haven she thought it would be... especially when she's the only one willing to help a man and small boy washed up on the beach, both badly wounded and with no memory of how they got there. Alasdair cannot admit that he does remember. He and his son Conn are the last of a ruling family of selkies, locked in a struggle with an ancient evil that has all but destroyed his people and now threatens the human world. Only powerful magic can stop it, a magic the generous, blue-eyed human who saved him doesn't know she possesses but which thrums in every thread she stitches. But as the attraction between Garland and Alasdair grows, so does the danger. Only Garland and her quilts, made with a power she barely believes is real, can save them all...and give them the chance to find out whether a selkie and a human can, for once, live happily after.