The Saltkettle Cove Collection

About this book

Three times the sea brought Saltkettle something it could not keep.

A drowned god who does not remember what he is. A selkie whose skin somebody has hidden. And a scrap of grey weather that lands on the harbourmaster's roof and will not get off.

Saltkettle Cove takes them all in, the only way it knows how — a saucer of milk left on a wall, a plate laid at the harvest table, four hundred people quietly deciding that something is theirs and declining to discuss it further. It is the warmest place in Cornwall.

It is also, three times over, very nearly the end of them.

Because these are three love stories about the same mistake: that keeping someone safe and keeping them are not the same thing — and the people who make it are never villains. They are the ones who feed you.

What the Tide Brought In — The last tide-witch of Saltkettle lives by one hard-won rule: everything she loves goes out on the tide and never comes home. Then an autumn storm gives her a great, bewildered, gentle giant of a man who makes the water rise when his heart does. He doesn't know what he is. Maren is terrified that she does. And the sea is coming to take him back.

A Selkie for the Season — Every legend says a man who finds a selkie's skin should hide it and keep her forever. Jory Pencarrow means to give it back. Even if free means gone. But the water hiding it is failing by the day, and the lord who calls himself her keeper is already on his way.

A Storm to Keep — Bram Nancarrow has read the barometer at seven, at noon and at nine every day for eleven years — since the morning he told his brother the glass was steady. Now there is something on his weathervane that can read a sky three days before it arrives, and nobody understands what it costs her to stay. Least of all the man who is falling in love with her.

Three complete novels, each with its own guaranteed happily-ever-after. There will be tea, an octopus with a grudge, a betting book behind the bar, a pig in the chapel, and a village that feeds you whether you like it or not.

Put the kettle on. Mind the fog.