Still, there’s a charge in the air as the stars wink with the coming summer solstice and the close of Nik’s sixteenth birthday. Tonight, dressed in her best party finery, she appears calm, anger buried well below her brilliant surface. The crown jewel of Havnestad, nuzzled against our shores-for better or worse. In all her spells and tantrums, she is one of us. Still, she is more than our witch-she’s our queen. Only the tide follows her moods-giving and taking at the same salty rate.

Coolly watching as we don black and add tears to her waters when she is wicked. Filling our bellies and our coffers when she is generous. Beautiful and cruel, and every glimmering wrinkle in between. She is just as likely to bestow a kiss as to steal the breath from your lips.

Sea Witch by Sarah Henning, $15, Amazon Chapter One The two girls become close friends, and when Annemette reveals that she cannot stay on two legs and stay in Havnested with the prince she's fallen in love with, Evie vows to help her.īustle has an exclusive excerpt from this fairy tale retelling below, so you can start reading before it officially comes out on July 31: That mysterious mermaid then appears in Havnestad as a human named Annemette.

Four years later, Evie witnesses Nik's near drowning death - and his unexpected rescue at the hands of a mysterious who looks like Anna. When Anna drowns, Evie is cast out of her small town for being a witch. The titular sea witch is Evie, a poor fisherman's daughter who has two best friends: Anna and Nik, who people better know as Crown Prince Asger Niklas Bryniulf Øldenburg III of Havnestad. Sarah Henning's Sea Witchcomes out on July 31, but you can start reading the book below. But wait - a new YA novel is changing that narrative by giving readers the 'evil' sea witch's side of the story, and you definitely don't want to miss this delicious, diabolical tale. The sea witch attempts to foil her plan to marry her prince, but our heroine, The Little Mermaid, wins out in the end. You've probably already heard some variation of the story: A romantic, spunky young mermaid falls in love with a prince, and so she turns to an evil sea witch to give her legs and let her walk on land.

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