On Georgia's barrier islands, ancient tides carve away memory and hurricanes reshape both landscape and lives.
A young woman with inherited psychic gifts searches the marshes for her missing brother. A grieving widow faces her estranged daughter across the ruins of their family inn. At an abandoned lighthouse, a young husband carrying an unbearable secret finds unexpected grace. A minister walks into the ocean seeking something he cannot name. A lighthouse keeper waits for a girl who will never return.
These eleven linked stories explore the liminal spaces where the living meet the dead, where faith confronts doubt, and where love persists despite devastating loss. Characters cross paths at the Island Escape Inn, on dolphin boats, at beach weddings-their separate griefs quietly weaving through generations.
With prose that honors both the beauty and brutality of coastal life, Gerry Wilson illuminates how we survive what we cannot outrun-and sometimes find our way home.