Midnight Signals at Blackthorn Cove

About this book:

On a fog-choked Maine headland in 1928, Nora Vance tends a light that cuts through darkness seven seconds at a time—until one night, a different signal answers from the forbidden cove below. Short. Long. Short. A boat slips through the Devil's Teeth reef with impossible precision. Crates move in the dark. And Nora, the lone woman keeper the village calls mad, holds the only witness: a splinter of Canadian pine and a secret she dare not log.

When Coast Guard Officer Cole Sterling arrives to recommission the abandoned station, his clean uniform and bright dedication feel like a threat disguised as salvation. He's hunting rumrunners; she's guarding a life built on silence and routine. But the sea doesn't respect jurisdictions, and the deeper Sterling pushes into Blackthorn's shadows, the more the line between duty and betrayal dissolves in the undertow.

With a lighthouse beam that misses the crimes at its feet, a cat named Barnacle, and a winter storm gathering force, Nora must decide whether the law is a shield or a noose—and whether the man watching her with those sharp blue eyes is the danger she fears, or the only ally she has. *Midnight Signals at Blackthorn Cove* is a taut, atmospheric historical thriller where every flash of light reveals a deeper dark.