The story
Some lights are kept for the living.
Mara Quill has kept the lighthouse on Grey Harbour alone since her father walked into the sea. She likes it that way. The island is quiet, the work is honest, and nobody asks her about the night her mother disappeared.
Then, in the worst storm in forty years, the light goes out and a ship sails into the harbour that every chart says is lying at the bottom of the bay. Its crew have not aged a day. Its captain knows Mara's name.
As the fog closes in and the mainland ferry stops running, Mara has seven nights to learn what her family promised the sea, and what it will cost to keep that promise.