The Woman from the Waves by Roslyn Sinclair

Good, 4 stars

Six years after a mysterious woman saved her from drowning off a remote Scottish island, Madeleine Laurent, who has since left her convent, crosses the ocean to find her rescuer. Instead she meets Hæra North, a brazen local who stirs her repressed desires. Hæra is an ocean horse spirit who hopes to become the clan's first female Stormhorse by capturing, drowning and eating a worthy human. She chose Madeleine, then saved her instead, and now plans to win her trust and devour her, until Madeleine awakens a different kind of hunger. A sapphic romantasy.

Details

ISBN9780998054292
Copyright Date2025
Publication DateJune 5, 2025
PublisherSelf-published
FormatTrade Paperback
No. of Pages562
LanguageEnglish
NotesFinalist, 2026 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Romance. Former nun heroine.
RatingGood
GenreRomance; Speculative Fiction
SubjectEx-nuns; Fantasy fiction; Folklore -- Scotland; Lesbians; Ocean horse spirits; Romance fiction; Scottish islands; Water spirits