Home from the sea

Description:

Mari Prothero turns sixteen, and learns the family fishing luck depends on each generation marrying a sea-dweller, but she demands her choice of suitors and a teacher from the sea ruler. In London, the stuffy official magicians send a pair of friends to seek the new water mage, little knowing the three girls would become best friends.

subjects: Elemental Masters,  Fantasy,  Fiction,  Shapeshifting,  Telepathy,  Selkies,  American Fantasy fiction,  Magic,  Arranged marriage,  Fathers and daughters,  Human-animal communication,  Human-animal relationships