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The Last Lighthouse: A Novel of the Drowned Coast
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 19 2026
Pages: 146
Weight: 0.41
Height: 0.37 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Some songs hold back the sea. Some hold back the dead.
On the cliffs above Crale stands the last lighthouse on a drowning coast. For three hundred years its keepers have sung the sea to sleep, twelve verses every dusk, so the towns beneath the water stay sleeping and the tide stays where it belongs.
Now the song has stopped. The last keeper is dead, the lamp is dark, and the water has begun to climb the streets, quiet and patient and wrong.
Esra Vane swore she would never come back to the tower that raised her. She has not sung a note in fourteen years. But she is the last throat that still knows the song, her town is going under, and the storm has left something on the black sand below the cliff that should not be there at all.
Something that knows the song too. From below.
A lyrical fantasy about grief, love, and the oldest law of the sea: that it gives back what is given.
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