Blood on the Tide

Lizzie is a bloodline vampire with three things on her list: her family's stolen jewels, a ship, and a way home. Reaching them means crossing Threshold, and she cannot do that without a guide.

She finds one in Maeve, a selkie whose pelt was taken from her. Lizzie's allies rescue Maeve, and the two strike a bargain. Lizzie will help track down the man who stole Maeve's skin. In return, Maeve will lead Lizzie to the Cwn Annwn vessel where the jewels are kept.

This is the second book in Katee Robert's Crimson Sails series, a sapphic fantasy romance with pirates, vampires and selkies. It begins where Hunt on Dark Waters leaves off, but the focus moves from Evelyn and Bowen to Lizzie, Evelyn's former lover. The romance is spicy.

Maeve distrusts the arrangement from the start, yet she is drawn to the vampire all the same, and that attraction puts her heart at risk. With the Cwn Annwn on their trail, the two women have no one to count on but each other, and the bargain they made for convenience is the thing keeping them alive.