Sweet Saints

A cozy, whimsical fantasy in which a bounty hunter, hired by enchanted creatures whose sisters have been kidnapped by human hunters and kept as wives, finds a baby left on her doorstep—and raises it until a selkie-turned-human and the baby's true mother both lay competing claims to the child. As a bounty hunter for animal wives, Sister Hound makes her living rescuing selkies, fox-brides, and other enchanted creatures who have been kidnapped by human men and kept, often against their wills, as wives. Hired by their kin, she hunts down the men who keep them and brings the stolen sisters home. One morning, a selkie leaves a baby on her doorstep. Reluctantly, Sister Hound takes the child in, and begins raising it as her own—until she meets a former selkie, now a human woman, who offers to take the baby off her hands. When the baby’s true mother returns, Sister Hound faces an impossible choice: which of the women should keep the baby?