The Siren's Daughter

<p><strong>The sea took the girl. Time took her name.</strong></p><p>After the wars Hagåtña fell hushed. Tasi - restless and bright - slipped to the reef where a siren waited with a black opal conch. At home her mother's patience frayed; her grandmother warned that spirits were listening. One bitter outburst became a curse and the sea answered.</p><p>Sailors spoke of a girl in the foam. Priests spread a warning about la sirena - the siren. The word traveled farther than the truth - until it swallowed the girl's name.</p><p>The Siren's Daughter is a haunting CHamoru retelling set just after the Spanish-Chamorro wars: a tale of mothers and daughters desire and duty and what the ocean keeps while history erases.</p><p>Includes a traditional telling of the Sirena legend and an Author's Note.</p>