The Lockers Wake

By Richard Harman

Blackbeard should've stayed dead. When a cursed tide cracks open Davy Jones' Locker, the legendary pirate finds a way back-not as flesh, but as a hunger wearing a man's face. Across modern seas, a green-tinged light begins to appear where it shouldn't: in calm water, in fog, in reflections. Ships drift off course without wind. Radios whisper like wet throats. Crewmen wake tasting brine with rope marks on their wrists, humming a hymn with no words. Mae Holloway, a coastal archivist who knows the old stories too well, and Jonah Kline, a salvage diver who's pulled more bodies than treasure, realize the haunting isn't random. The sea is recording people-writing them into a crew they never agreed to join. And at the center of it all is a lantern that never burns out, a beam that doesn't guide ships... it selects them. As disappearances stack and the coastline turns into a trap, Mae and Jonah are forced to choose between curiosity and survival, truth and sanity, land and the pull of the deep. Because once the Locker learns your name, it doesn't need chains to claim you. It only needs your breath. And Blackbeard is sailing again.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GJTKKQRN
• ISBN13: 9798245627199
• Release Date: January 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"