Akmalla — Ronnie G. Anderson

The immortal witch Brenna, captured by a priest, awakens to find her body completely tattooed with the image of the two headed dragon that the priest believes her to actually be. Escaping and returning with her shield and weapons to her home in Tubal Cain before the great flood that took most of mankind, she visits her mother and her younger self. Here she warns her young self of the horrors that her stepfather would bring to her. He had declared her to be the priestess of the two headed dragon and any child that she had would be sacrificed to the dragon in worship. Horrified at his revelation she is taken forward in time to actually view the birth of her first child between a merman and herself. The child was murdered as Brenna knew it would be. But there was a way to prevent this from happening. The Dragonlady took her mother, sister, younger self and her young twin to the land of Hawaii a thousand years into their future. Here the beginning of the "Womer" race began. A hybrid cross between the sea bound Mer race and land bound human one, these creatures can live both on the land and in the oceans. In Sea Stories and Womer Tails seven more novels are based upon the descendants of these young.