Some waters remember everything...
When marine surveyor Mason Holt sets out on a 16-day sail up the Inside Passage to Haida Gwaii, he is looking for something he has never been able to name. What finds him instead is something older than language: a presence in the deep water that follows his boat north, leaving its mark on the hull and its cold in the bilge, watching and waiting.
As the Perseverance pushes deeper into the wilderness coast, Mason must reckon with the history written into these waters, the grief of a people nearly erased, and the stories his Haida grandmother tried to give him when he was too young to understand what she was offering.
The Pacific Northwest has a long memory. So does what lives in it.
The Danger Apparent is a literary thriller about inheritance, witness, and the price of finally paying attention.