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Can a killer whale raised in captivity be released into the wild and accepted into orca society?
Only if she wants to.
When two Indigenous teenagers with orca-clan roots are enlisted in an effort to repatriate an orca named Marina with her wild relatives, they find opposition from the most unexpected source. The project appears hopeless until the teens discover a shared, inherited ability to communicate with whales.
Despite Marina’s intransigence, the teens—helped by Marina’s biological family and two orca researchers—convince her to decide between captivity and freedom.
Marina chooses freedom, and the real trouble begins. -
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Time is running out for the iconic killer whales of the Pacific coast. Orca families have been decimated by humanity’s greed and folly, their food supply wiped out, their infants dying from starvation and tainted mother’s milk.
Captive male orca Makai is destined for freedom, but a human-caused tragedy upends his world. Plotting revenge, acceptance into orca society, and reversal of his adopted family’s decline, his success hinges on fellow orcas, whale researchers, and a runaway teenager with Orca Clan roots. But Makai’s radical plan must first overcome millennia of orca cultural tradition.
Profits from the sale of Beyond the Human Realm will be donated to orca conservation efforts.