February 1900

One winter night during a bout of melancholy, the misunderstood Silence “Tom” Apollyon tries to drown himself on a lonely stretch of beach in Norfolk. A stranger, Theodore Harper, drags him safely from the water—not that Tom wants to be saved. Theo, though, is a selkie, a being who has no trouble fishing him out of water.

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David Mills has always secretly yearned for the incredible. Due to his father’s dictates, he’s just settled for what’s proper. But after he makes an egregious mistake and learns his ex-lover is a selkie, everything he pretends to be starts to shatter: he’s forced to admit he’s never been as ordinary as he’s allowed others to think. Perhaps worse, he has to confront his self-built loneliness.

Paul Apollyon sees flashes of the future, yet he can’t predict Alastair Gow bursting into his public house and desperately asking for a place to hide.

Alastair wants to use the cellar, to be precise: a totally normal request from a man who looks like a dashing pirate out of a storybook.

But perhaps there isn’t anything to say to a charming stranger asking to hide in your cellar but yes—and with that, Paul is drawn into sweet intrigue.

When his uncle runs off to visit Alastair’s grave for the first time, Tom Apollyon finds their family roles reversed: he feels obligated to watch over Paul, who never makes impulsive decisions while drunk.

The catch is The Shuck—not a peaceful cemetery near the sea, just a pub near the sea—actually contains the polite, but unpredictable, spirit of Paul’s former lover.