The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter
A Sapphic Historical Romance

About this book:

On the wind-lashed rocks of Gull Rock Light, Eileen Moore keeps a vigil no man believes a woman can hold. It's 1878, the Lighthouse Board has refused her commission, and the nor'easter closing in is the worst in a decade—yet Eileen tends the great Fresnel lens with a keeper's precision and a daughter's grief. She knows every gear, every wick, every mood of the Penobscot Bay. She does not know that the sea is about to deliver a half-drowned mystery onto her shore: a woman washed up in the wreckage, carrying secrets that will crack open the careful solitude Eileen has built stone by stone.

As the storm traps them together in the tower's white glare, the rigid boundaries of duty begin to blur. The stranger's past is a tangle of Boston wealth and desperate flight; Eileen's future is a choice between the only life she's ever known and a love that has no name in any government ledger. With the light to maintain, the fog bell tolling, and the mainland deaf to their distress, two women must navigate treacherous waters—between propriety and passion, between the safety of the known and the terrifying pull of the unknown.

Rich with the salt-and-iron texture of 19th-century lighthouse life, *The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter* is a sapphic historical romance that burns as bright and steady as the beam Eileen tends: a story of women claiming their place in a world that would keep them in shadow, and finding in each other the only harbor that matters.