Stealing the Selkie’s Heart (The Selkie Seas, #1) by Ella Rose


Publisher:  Lightning Platypus Press, (July 19, 2022)
Category: Paranormal Romance
Tour dates: November 3-23, 2022
ISBN: 979-8985603811
Available in Print and ebook, 286 pages

Description Stealing the Selkie’s Heart by Ella Rose

A cursed town, a kidnapped selkie…what will happen when love is on the line? 

Powerful selkie warrior Ronan must negotiate with a group of local sirens before war breaks out. The last thing he needs is a desperate human who steals his sealskin, intent on forcing him to help her. He decides to seduce her, get his skin back, and fulfill his mission. But finding out she’s his True Mate changes everything…

Widow Una MacCallan is determined to save her small Scottish fishing town from the curse that fell over it twenty-four years ago, even if it means blackmailing the fierce selkie. Though she knows he is the key to breaking the spell, she doesn’t anticipate the attraction between them. She can’t afford the distraction, and she doesn’t trust that his interest is anything more than a manipulation, a bid for freedom. But she keeps finding herself tempted…

Together, they must race against time to break the curse. But as the two get closer, they find themselves asking: can they give up love to save those around them? What is the price for their newfound passion?

Stealing the Selkie’s Heart is an exciting enemies-to-lovers paranormal romance and the first book in The Selkie Seas series by Ella Rose. Let it steal your heart today!

Praise Stealing the Selkie’s Heart by Ella Rose

“A fun novel with a great HEA. I am looking forward to finishing the prequel. More fun awaits!”- John P., Amazon

“Stealing the Selkie’s Heart is a cute love story between a fisherman’s widow and a selkie warrior. One of the funniest utilizations of romance novel “logic” we’ve read in a while. It’s also fun to read along with the “whodunnit” portion of the book. If you like your PNR on the short, cute, & sweet side, this is a fun one to read.”- Meg Richmond, Reedsy Discovery

Praise Losing the Selkie’s Skin (Prequel)

“This was a really neat story about Selkies and the twists and turns they have to go through to help the Selkie Prince with his skin. I enjoyed reading it and am looking forward to reading more of the Author Ella Rose’s books.”- Jacquetta Harvey, Goodreads

“ Mythology and folklore tales are highly intriguing on their own. These stories are filled with mystique, adventure, and a sense of intrigue and fantasy that is unique to the genre. But take mythology and folklore and intertwine that with paranormal romance and you’ve got yourself a book that is difficult to put down.
This book is wonderfully written and from the start, the reader will be drawn into the story, wanting and needing more. The author writes in a way that makes you feel for the characters, yearning for them to just finally get together. The reader cannot help but fall for the main characters as they journey through the book.
Losing the Selkie’s Skin is a wonderful start to a thrilling series, in so many ways. I highly recommend this book for lovers of paranormal romance, mythology and folklore stories.”- Kristin, Goodreads

Interview Ella Rose

TR: Please tell us something about Stealing the Selkie’s Heart that is not in the summary.  (About the book, character you particularly enjoyed writing etc.)

ER: I really enjoyed writing the female MC, Una. She’s sassy and smart and has no idea how lonely she is until the male MC, Ronan, comes along. She’s passionate about her village and willing to do whatever it takes to keep it safe. Multiple times someone asks her why she doesn’t just leave, and each question seems to reaffirm her desire to make her environment suite her rather than the other way around.

TR: I always enjoy looking at the names that authors choose to give their characters. Where do you derive the names of your characters?  Are they based on real people you knew or now know in real life? How do you create names for your characters?

ER: My selkie main character names always come from some Gaelic base. Ceannas is derived from the Gaelic word for “leader”. Ronan is based off the word for “little seal.” Prion is derived from the Gaelic for “prince.” The names are usually based not off people that I know, but rather emotions or personality landmarks that spring to my mind when I think about the character.

TR: Where did you get the inspiration for your cover?

ER: I was lucky to find a gem in Deranged Doctors Design, who did all the covers for my books. I told them a few small details of what I wanted, from the clothes worn by Ronan and the character that depicts Una, plus some of the necessary background elements, and D³ ran with it and made the beautiful cover I went with. They brought my vision to life, even when I didn’t exactly know what I wanted.

TR: What is your favorite scene in the book? Why?

ER: My favorite scene in the book is when Ronan first kisses Una outside the Town Hall. He tells her they’re being watched and steals a kiss. She threatens to break his hand if he tries that again, and he cheekily retorts that it would be worth it. I love it because it’s such a microcosm of their relationship and it shows that both characters have some bite to them.

TR: What kind of messages do you try to instill in your writing?

ER: I favor hard-won romances. I feel like situations where each MC believes themselves to be just fine on their own brings out the best in my characters since they must learn that they need the other person to be whole. I feel like that’s also true in real life—we are social creatures and need love in our lives. And the way it takes the MCs a while to figure this out about each other parallels my own experiences in love, as well.

TR: What draws you to this genre? 

ER: I love happy endings and angst and stolen kisses and fierce-burning relationships. So, it was a natural joining.

TR: Will Ronan have more to tell readers in the future?

ER: Not directly, but tangentially throughout the next few books. He doesn’t disappear entirely.

TR: Do you have any writing projects that you are currently working on?

ER: Saving the Selkie’s Heart, Book 2 in The Selkie Seas series. It follows Ceannas and Lyall’s relationship.

TR: Is there a question/s that you would have liked me or another blogger to ask but didn’t? If so, please ask and answer.

ER: If there is a reading order between this and the prequel novella, Losing the Selkie’s Skin. I very much want readers to find Stealing the Selkie’s Heart first and then supplement with Prion’s story in Losing the Selkie’s Skin.

About Ella Rose

Ella Rose is a paranormal romance author who loves kink, ink, and cake, and hopes you do too. She is a bi-sexual author writing through a Bi-Polar Disorder lens and thinks representation and mental health matter. She is the author of The Selkie Seas series, which includes Losing the Selkie’s Skin and Stealing the Selkie’s Heart.

Her latest selkie short stories will appear in Dark Rose Press’s Worlds Apart and Dragon Soul Press’s Beyond Atlantis anthologies. She is a member of Romance Writers of America and the Paranormal Romance Guild.

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