The Last Lighthouse Wife - Softcover

Inhaltsangabe

The light was built to save ships. Someone has taught it to kill.

Morrow Island, Maine, 1901.

Since her husband vanished into the sea, Clara Harrow has kept Morrow Light through storms, isolation, and the quiet suspicion of men who believe a woman can inherit a title but not the authority behind it. The island calls her the last lighthouse wife.

Clara knows she is something else entirely.

When the government orders her to accept a male assistant, Margaret Kearney arrives wearing her dead brother’s clothes and carrying his appointment papers. Maggie is injured, hunted, and determined to discover why her brother was murdered after investigating missing lighthouse equipment and signals that belong to no authorized station.

Then a ship wrecks where no ship should.

A fog whistle sounds with no hand upon the lever. A second light flashes beneath an abandoned quarry. Somewhere beyond the cliffs, someone is changing the signals that guide sailors through the darkness.

Forced into close quarters, and eventually a single bed, Clara and Maggie begin an investigation that draws them into maritime smuggling, deliberate wrecking, and the island’s oldest legend: the Grey Wives, women said to sing ships into the fog.

Clara trusts measurements. Maggie trusts machinery. Neither is prepared for the possibility that the island’s stories may be telling the truth.

Nor are they prepared for the dangerous tenderness growing between them.

With a killing storm approaching and Maggie’s true identity threatening to cost her freedom, the two women must decide which light to follow, which secrets to expose, and how much they are willing to risk to keep one another alive.

The Last Lighthouse Wife is a gothic sapphic historical mystery filled with storm-battered romance, forbidden desire, maritime intrigue, dry humor, dangerous women, only-one-bed tension, and a lighthouse whose beam may be concealing something monstrous in the fog.

Creation note: This is an author-directed, AI-supported work. AI tools assisted during development, drafting, revision, and production, while the story’s concept, characters, creative direction, selection, and final editorial decisions remained with the author.

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