Ananda Braxton-Smith

Secrets of Carrick: Merrow tells the story of Merrow, who lives in a medieval village with her aunt. Both her parents have disappeared. Her father was a sailor who didn't come home one day, and her grief-stricken mother walked into the ocean, never to be seen again. But then the villagers start whispering—maybe her mother was a sea-maid; and if...

Her brothers and sisters are fearless, light as scuds, quick as hoppers. Not Mally. She knows too many secrets, that one. She is frighted, all right. Frozen at the edge of the shore, lonely as a cornstalk in a saltmarsh. But in Carrick, things are changing and Mally needs to change too. Out of nowhere has come Dolyn Craig—a sneak...