Last House On The Tide

<p>Every year the ocean takes a little more of Harbor-until it comes for the people.</p><p>When a corpse washes into a living room on the last livable street paramedic <strong>Wren Keene</strong> knows it isn't a storm surge. The tides aren't obeying the moon. Mail slots clack with letters no one sent. Bathtubs fill from the sea. And in the fog a man with a ring of keys walks the routes like a ferryman taking attendance.</p><p>With a<em><strong> perigean storm closing in</strong></em> Wren pulls together an unlikely crew: <strong>Lina</strong> a teenage field recorder who hears patterns in the hum; <strong>Jonah</strong> a stubborn waterman with a bad knee; <strong>Mrs. Dorrit</strong> keeper of the town's minutes and its dead letters; <strong>Dr. Corin Vale</strong> whose smart drainage model may have taught the water to hunt; and <strong>Eli</strong> Wren's father whose lucid hours arrive like low tide. Their only chance is to unteach the town-strip the numbers misfile the names and raise a drowned ship's bell that can make the cut forget its appetite.</p><p>But the ledger under Harbor keeps three columns-paper code and mouth-and it wants a final entry. As the highest tide of the year lifts Wren must decide what to surrender: her deed her name or someone she can't afford to lose.</p><p>A coastal gothic thriller about routes debts and a town that refuses to be counted.</p>