The coauthors from the bestselling Home of Night time series reunite using a haunting, romantic, suspense-filled original novella in the Escaped series.Eons ago Sirens were exiled through the Mortal World and held captive in a cove at the edge of Tartarus. They are beautiful beyond imagination but deadly beyond compare. Plus they possess set their sights on breaking free of charge.They risk everything to sneak out of Tartarus and ascend towards the forbidden Mortal Realm with one objective: to partner with individual men to dilute about The Fragrance of Salt and Sand: An Escaped Novella their cursed bloodline and form a new competition of Sirens, free from their jail in the Underworld. But also for a Siren to become pregnant, she must revert to her accurate type, a horrifying view that drives men to madness and makes eliminating them a mercy. In contemporary San Francisco, the Sirens merge; each woman has a singular objective and each guy she meets is normally her victim.Melody Seirina has always been different. She doesn’t believe that she’ll be able to bring herself to take a human life, even when the destiny of her people rests on her willingness to do so. She’s even more confident when she meets Dean, a wonderful cop who sees a loving future with her. Their romance threatens two worlds, the one the Sirens fled from and the one that will kill them if they can’t comprehensive their objective at the earliest opportunity. Melody must decide: risk the continuing future of her people or follow her heart.