The Lighthouse Keeper's Logbook
A Coastal Mystery

About this book:

The fog-choked cliffs of Pelican Point hide more than shipwrecks. When sixteen-year-old Nora is exiled to her great-uncle Arthur’s decommissioned lighthouse for the summer, she expects boredom, damp wool, and a man who communicates in grunts. Instead, she finds a scrap of century-old script wedged in the iron spiral staircase—*bearings taken from... October 14...*—and a locked desk in the watch room that Arthur insists is empty. As autumn storms hammer the headland, Nora pieces together a mystery that spans generations: a keeper who died polishing the lens, a smuggler’s cave accessible only at lowest tide, and coordinates scribbled in margins that don't match any chart.

Each chapter pulls the tide back further, revealing what the sea swallowed. The 1924 storm that vanished a ship called the *Sea Star*. Phantom lights that blink from the lantern room long after the lens was removed. Footprints on rocks no living person could reach. And Arthur, whose silence is its own language, guarding secrets that explain why he bought this crumbling tower and never left. The lighthouse isn't a monument—it's a witness.

*The Lighthouse Keeper's Logbook* is a coastal mystery steeped in salt, fog, and the weight of things left unwritten. For readers who love *The Light Between Oceans* meets *The Thirteenth Tale*, this is a story about what surfaces when the water recedes—and who decides what stays buried.