At the Edge of the World

Author: wickedBunny

Some postings are punishment. Some are traps. Mae Lilliana Crow is starting to think hers might be both. Twelve miles offshore, where the sea refuses to behave, Sable Firth Lighthouse has outlasted every keeper who ever tended it. When the last three of the assistant keepers just disappeared, in thin air, Mae Calloway is a classified field investigator running on four months of broken sleep and a grief she can't outrun, is sent to investigate the only keeper that has been there when the other keepers disappeared. Her director calls this a recovery assignment. The keeper is quiet, careful. He tends the light like a devotion and watches the sea like a confession he's still listening to. Mae is supposed to be observing him, but as days go by, she is finding it harder than it should be. And then there are the other things, the knocking beneath the foundation at three in the morning, the lighthouse logs with days that simply don't exist, the scratches on the walls in a script no one can read, and on certain nights, when the sea goes glassy and the moon is wrong, something on the horizon that isn't on any chart. Something is not right about this place. Something is not right about him. And something, the part of Mae that has never been wrong, is beginning to suspect that those two things are the same secret. ___ A gothic psychological thriller with a dark romance at its heart. For readers of Mexican Gothic, The Silent Patient and The Hunting Party.