Rusalka

Blurb

Rusalka is a fantasy novel by American science fiction and fantasy author C. J. Cherryh. It was first published in October 1989 in the United States in a hardcover edition by Ballantine Books under its Del Rey Books imprint. Rusalka is book one of Cherryh's three-book Russian Stories trilogy set in medieval Russia in forests along the Dnieper River near Kiev in modern day Ukraine. The novel draws on Slavic folklore and concerns the fate of a girl who has drowned and become a rusalka. It is also an exploration of magic and the development of a young wizard.
Rusalka was nominated for the Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel in 1990 and was a third-place runner-up.
Cherryh self-published a revised edition of Rusalka in e-book format in October 2010 at Closed Circle Publications.