Sea Witch, by Virginia Kantra
The first full length novel in Ms Kantra’s Children of the Sea series, Sea Witch tells the story of the selkie Margred, one of the elemental beings born during God’s creation of the world, and Caleb Hunter, the very human chief of police of a small island off the coast of New England.
As I mentioned in my brief review of “Sea Crossing”, a short story and also a prequel for the series, the children of the sea are elementals and are loosely based on the Celtic legends of selkies, but with Ms Kantra’s personal twist.