Selkie Moon has fled an abusive marriage to start over in Hawaii, where the beauty and warmth feel like a promise of safety — until a voice in a dream warns that someone is trying to kill her. As messages escalate and the supernatural intrudes in ways she cannot explain, Selkie finds herself tangled in local folklore, psychic visions, and a web of family secrets that stretch across decades and continents. Virginia King blends psychological thriller with a light touch of the paranormal in a globe-trotting mystery series.

Selkie Moon is warm, funny, and refreshingly imperfect — quick to doubt herself even as the evidence of her gifts accumulates. She names herself after the mythological mermaids of folklore, which suits a character who is always moving between worlds: ordinary and supernatural, past and present, who she was and who she is becoming. Readers consistently describe her as likeable, honest, and easy to follow across very strange territory.

Across four books, Selkie travels from Hawaii to Sydney, Paris, Ireland, and Hong Kong, each destination tied to a new mystery that peels back another layer of the buried truth about her past, her family, and who she really is. Her psychic abilities — unreliable, frightening, and impossible to fully deny — grow with each installment, and the series traces her transformation from a woman in flight into a woman who chooses to face what is coming. The folkloric traditions of each setting give the series a rich, mythic texture.