Five years ago, Sophie Durrant surprised herself and her friends by dropping out of college and taking a job as a bartender on a tiny island at the end of the world, knowing only that for once in her life she felt that she was home. Now, a cryptic note in her dead mother's handwriting leads Sophie to delve into the mystery of her past, a mystery which points to the old legend of the Selkies: the seals who could set aside their skins and walk on land as men and women. Her heritage calls to her, by water and blood. ...but there are other secrets, darker than any legend, and their keepers are not forgiving.