Secrets, like troubles, come in threes. When you possess one, two more arrive to keep it company. Nerine, a sea nymph of the ancient world, knows too much about both... Love and coming of age in a mythic Mediterranean where the gods and goddesses of old shape history.
The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley;
The Homeward Bounders by Diana Wynne Jones;
The Forgotten Beasts of Eld by Patricia McKillip