The Merrow's Red Cap
A Novel of Irish Legend

About this book:

A sensible creature never leaves his skin, his soul, or his hat where land-dwellers can reach them. Tadhg the merrow learns this too late. Basking on a sun-warmed ledge at Dunmore Head, he sets aside his enchanted red cap for a moment—and a red-haired thief steals it, vanishing over the cliffs. Without the *cohuleen druith*, Tadhg is no longer a child of the sea. He is a naked, gasping thing with two clumsy legs, gills sealing shut, and a mind already beginning to forget the currents, the songs, and the deep green dark that has been his home for five centuries.

Now the shore is a prison of stone, rain, and cold. To reclaim his cap, Tadhg must limp across Ireland—from the Cliffs of Moher to the smoky hearths of coastal villagers—pursued by a thief who wears his magic like a trophy and by his own fading memories. Every step erodes the old power in his blood; every human word drowns out the ocean’s voice. If he does not find the cap before the land claims him completely, he will not drown in water. He will drown in forgetting.

*The Merrow’s Red Cap* is an atmospheric, mythic quest where Irish legend collides with the brutal beauty of the coast. Step into a world of sea-wardens and stolen souls, where the boundary between man and monster is as thin as a red thread, and the greatest danger lies not in the waves—but on dry land.