Her novels have been called "haunting" (Booklist), "evocative" (Kristin Hannah), and "beautiful" (Luanne Rice). With Song of the Seals, Christy Yorke offers a compelling novel of life, loss, and the bittersweet joy of loving with one's whole heart.

Kate Vegas has fostered several children over the years, saving them from delinquency and helping them heal from the miseries they've endured. Kate also finds healing in these arrangements, some relief from the pain she's felt since that terrible day years ago when her own son was taken from her.

Now her latest charge, Wayne, almost eighteen, is sure he will find salvation in Seal Bay—one of the last of the old Northern California fishing towns. With little left to keep them rooted, Kate and her widowed father, Gerald, join him, settling in a strange, superstitious place where tales are told of sixty-foot sea monsters; where women tremble on the edge of madness when their men are at sea, the fog rolls in, the laurel tree weeps, and the seals cry out in the harbor. Seal Bay is both terrifying and wonderful for Wayne, for Kate, and for Gerald; and teetering on the edge of tragedy, they all discover the miracle of love.

Filled with wisdom about the price love demands and the payoff it provides, Song of the Seals is an unforgettable journey to an unforgettable place—and a rich, rewarding novel from an exciting new literary voice.