About this book:

The body of a young woman is found on the rocks below Gull Cove Lighthouse. A year later, her diary washes ashore. Inside, a single cryptic entry. "The Beacon sees everything." Former FBI forensic linguist Aris Thorne, haunted by a case that cost her everything, arrives in the storm-battered town to consult on the cryptic text. She expects a closed circle of suspects, but Gull Cove is a town of secrets, its silence enforced by the rhythmic sweep of the light. As the town prepares for its annual Founders' Day festival, Aris discovers the diary is not the first manuscript. Decades of whispered truths and hidden warnings have been passed between the town's residents, all centered on the lighthouse. The keeper, a reclusive old man, is the town's confessor, and his manuscript is the ledger of their sins. But someone is burning those pages, erasing history one line at a time. When a second body is discovered, a modern death with a chilling echo of the past, Aris realizes the manuscript is not just a record of what happened, but a map to something more. The town's dangerous lies are not just about a murder, but about the treasure and the tragedy buried in its foundations, and the killer will protect that secret with the same relentless force as the tide.