312 pages · 2025 · ISBN 9780000000024
Wickham County · Book 2
Beacon Year
A Novel
The follow-up to The Salt Margin — a year of weather, vigilance, and one woman's refusal to leave.
Set in the same coastal county as The Salt Margin, Beacon Year follows lighthouse keeper Maren Doyle through twelve months of a job that no longer officially exists. As automation closes in and the village around her thins, Maren begins keeping a second logbook: not of ships, but of the small refusals that keep a life intact.
A novel about the dignity of obsolete work — and the people who choose it anyway.