The Salt Water Ledger (Maple Beach, Band 3) - Softcover

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Twenty-two families were cleared off the shore. One woman wants to tell their story. One man wants to map it. Neither of them has asked. Noémie Dorsainvil is the warmest voice on the coast. Every weekday morning she makes Maple Beach laugh about the weather. But her career is out of second chances, and a podcast producer in Toronto wants one true story with a wound in it, due December 15. Then a ledger slides out of bundle 377 in the library cellar. It lists every household cleared from the Saltwater Row in 1974, and everything they had to leave behind. Third name down is Lama, which is the town's beloved weatherman, Pot. He was thirteen that spring and has never said one word about it. Theo Bell arrives from Halifax with a provincial contract and a chart tube. He believes every record belongs in the light, because silence cost his family everything. He thinks Noémie is a performer looking for content. She thinks he's a man who draws maps nobody reads. They are both about to be wrong in public. The families don't all want to be found. The town's kindest benefactor has a dollar's worth of secrets. And as the longest nights of the year bring a storm toward the last pilings of the Row, Noémie and Theo will each be shown exactly what their choices will cost. Warm, clean and closed-door, The Saltwater Ledger is a story about who gets to tell a story, about the courage to ask first, and about a love that starts with a card that says Not yet is an answer.

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