The Search for Aveline by Stephanie Rabig

Author:Stephanie Rabig [Rabig, Angie Bee, Stephanie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: LGBTQIA, Fantasy, Romance
Publisher: Less Than Three Press, LLC
Published: 2017-02-01T05:00:00+00:00

Glamour

He had seen them for the first time when they'd all come ashore at the Whitehaven Harbor. His own family had grown too familiar and rather boring. Always the same things: one ritual or dance after another, tricks played on humans, time spent speaking about their long family history.

After three or four centuries, it got tedious.

He'd begun spending more and more time with the First People, whom his family had tolerated. Eventually, new people had come in from the sea, people with paler skin and different weapons, and a strong desire to build pathways of iron across the land. He and the other Fae families had tried their best to sabotage the pathways, but they'd eventually bisected the country anyway, splitting apart Fae territories that had existed for centuries.

Some Fae had moved away entirely, taking the form of the humans they so despised in order to seek passage on great wooden ships, intent on reaching safer lands. Others had gone into hiding, seeking solace among others of their own kind.

He, meanwhile, had grown more and more interested in the humans that unwittingly traveled through their home.

His parents said his fascination with humans, particularly sailors, was a phase, and one they didn't approve of, because he used his talents to help them rather than confound them. And he'd believed them; he'd been content to wander around human establishments and listen to their wild stories of life at sea, and that had been enough.

Then The Sappho had arrived.

He'd never met a crew entirely made up of women before; judging from the looks on the other sailors' faces, it was equally odd to them. He'd been charmed by Captain Roberts, so much so that he'd been half-convinced that she had Fae blood in her somewhere.

By the time he'd spent a full hour in their company, he'd known he wanted to leave with them.

He hadn't said a word about it to his parents or other relatives, save for his cousin Aurelia. He knew Aurelia would keep his secret for as long as need be, while his mother and father and aunts and uncles and siblings would merely argue with him endlessly—or, worse, put a curse on the ship in order to keep him home.

At that point in time, Kai hadn't yet been with the crew, nor had Lucky Franky. Believing that one had to be a woman to sign on, Marcel had shifted form, and joined up as Marcella.

She had relished every day of her life on the ocean, finding it to be everything she'd been unconsciously longing for all these years. Though she knew now that Captain Harry was purely human, without an ounce of true magic in her blood, Harry still had a way with inhuman creatures that Marcella felt might impress even her stoic great-grandmother. Not many sea captains could claim the loyalty of a Fae, much less that of a Fae, two merfolk, and a siren.

The only complaint she had was how much the former blacksmith, Lizzie, still liked to work with iron.

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