Every year the ocean takes a little more of Harbor-until it comes for the people.
When a corpse washes into a living room on the last livable street, paramedic Wren Keene knows it isn't a storm surge. The tides aren't obeying the moon. Mail slots clack with letters no one sent. Bathtubs fill from the sea. And in the fog, a man with a ring of keys walks the routes like a ferryman taking attendance.
With a perigean storm closing in,
Wren pulls together an unlikely crew: Lina, a teenage field recorder who hears patterns in the hum; Jonah, a stubborn waterman with a bad knee; Mrs. Dorrit, keeper of the town's minutes and its dead letters; Dr. Corin Vale, whose ""smart"" drainage model may have taught the water to hunt; and Eli, Wren's father, whose lucid hours arrive like low tide. Their only chance is to unteach the town-strip the numbers, misfile the names, and raise a drowned ship's bell that can make the cut forget its appetite.
But the ledger under Harbor keeps three columns-paper, code, and mouth-and it wants a final entry. As the highest tide of the year lifts, Wren must decide what to surrender: her deed, her name, or someone she can't afford to lose.
A coastal gothic thriller about routes, debts, and a town that refuses to be counted.
By:
Guy Roberts Imprint: Guy Roberts Dimensions:
Height: 216mm,
Width: 140mm,
Spine: 8mm
Weight: 154g ISBN:9798231824205 Pages: 128 Publication Date:20 August 2025 Audience:
General/trade
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ELT Advanced
Format:Paperback Publisher's Status: Active