The Sirens
by Emilia Hart
In 2019, Lucy awakens from a dream to find her hands around her ex-lover’s throat. Horrified, she flees to her older sister’s house on the Australian coast, hoping for an explanation for the strangely vivid nightmare that preceded the attack—but Jess is nowhere to be found. As Lucy awaits her return, rumors surrounding the small town emerge: numerous men have gone missing at sea over decades, a baby was found hidden in a cave, and sailors tell of hearing women’s voices on the waves. Desperate for answers, Lucy begins to read her sister’s adolescent diary.
In 1999, Jess is a lonely sixteen-year-old in a rural town in the middle of the continent. Diagnosed with a rare allergy to water, she has always felt different, until her charming art teacher takes an interest in her drawings, seeing a power and maturity in them—and in her—that no one else has recognized.
In 1800, twin sisters Mary and Eliza are torn from their father in Ireland and forced onto a convict ship bound for Australia. They have feared the ocean their entire lives, ever since their mother drowned when they were girls. Yet as the boat bears them further from home, they begin to notice inexplicable changes in their bodies and feel the sea beginning to call to them.
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In 2019, Lucy awakens from a dream to find her hands around her ex-lover’s throat. Horrified, she flees to her older sister’s house on the Australian coast, hoping for an explanation for the strangely vivid nightmare that preceded the attack—but Jess is nowhere to be found. As Lucy awaits her return, rumors surrounding the small town emerge: numerous men have gone missing at sea over decades, a baby was found hidden in a cave, and sailors tell of hearing women’s voices on the waves. Desperate for answers, Lucy begins to read her sister’s adolescent diary. In 1999, Jess is a lonely sixteen-year-old in a rural town in the middle of the continent. Diagnosed with a rare allergy to water, she has always felt different, until her charming art teacher takes an interest in her drawings, seeing a power and maturity in them—and in her—that no one else has recognized. In 1800, twin sisters Mary and Eliza are torn from their father in Ireland and forced onto a convict ship bound for Australia. They have feared the ocean their entire lives, ever since their mother drowned when they were girls. Yet as the boat bears them further from home, they begin to notice inexplicable changes in their bodies and feel the sea beginning to call to them.
