Sign-In
Cart
The Wrack-Crafter's Fathom: The Tidewatch Chronicles Book 2
Paperback
Series: The Tidewatch Chronicles, Book 2
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 9 2026
Pages: 280
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The lamp is lit. The mug is reached for without looking. Aurora Voss has spent eighteen months building the plainest, most ordinary life a woman who faked her own death thirty years ago could ask for - and it has almost worked.
Then the sea starts giving back what it swallowed.
The original pact between Tidewatch and the entity beneath it is surfacing from the ocean floor, document by document, addressed to the lighthouse keeper. And the woman who sank them has just stepped off the trade vessel - carrying the deep-ocean courts' agenda, a partial translation, and thirty years of evidence Aurora spent her whole new life trying to file under: closed.
Aurora recognized her before she cleared the gangplank. Her cat did not approve. Neither did her filing system, which has run smoothly for eighteen months and was not built for this.
She can run the investigation the way she's run everything else - carefully, at a professional distance, giving Tidewatch the edited version of her. Or she can let the harbor master who leaves notes she mostly answers, the mentor who feeds her more than she asks, the priest who wants to learn what she knows, and the town that already decided to keep her, watch her work at full depth - as what she actually is.
Thirty years of training says: don't get attached to people who can't hold the whole truth. Tidewatch has other ideas.
For readers of Heather Fawcett's Emily Wilde novels and T. Kingfisher's Paladin's Grace - dry-witted women, deadpan comedy, competence under pressure - comes the second book in a trilogy about what belonging costs when it's finally tested, and what it gives back when it holds.
Also in
Mystery & Thriller
The Underworld U.S.A. Trilogy, Volume I: American Tabloid, the Cold Six Thousand; Introduction by Thomas Mallon
Ellroy, James
Hardcover
Coffin Road: An Utterly Gripping Crime Thriller from the Author of the China Thrillers
May, Peter
Paperback
Sabine's Notebook: In Which the Extraordinary Correspondence of Griffin & Sabine Continues
Bantock, Nick
Hardcover
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Movie Tie-In Edition): Book 1 of the Millennium Trilogy
Larsson, Stieg
Paperback
The Golden Mean: In Which the Extraordinary Correspondence of Griffin & Sabine Concludes
Bantock, Nick
Hardcover
Big Little Truths: Reese's Book Club: A Novel: The Sequel to Big Little Lies
Moriarty, Liane
Hardcover
The Pirate Queen: A Novel from the New York Times Bestselling Author of the Frozen River
Lawhon, Ariel
Hardcover