The Ghost Ship
(2027)(The tenth book in the Sealight Cove Cozy Mystery series)
A novel by Miranda Rose Barker
A boat appears out of the November fog. Its captain is gone. And something buried for more than a century is about to bring Sealight Cove’s past back to shore.
November has settled over Sealight Cove, bringing empty beaches, cold water and fog thick enough to hide almost anything.
Then an unregistered boat runs aground at the mouth of the harbour.
The wheelhouse is empty. A window has been broken from the inside. The diving equipment aboard has never been used. And a thermos of hot coffee suggests someone was on the supposedly abandoned vessel far more recently than anyone thought.
For Nora and Rufus, the clues lead beyond the stranded boat to the wreck of the Resolute, an old family story and a journal written in 1893 by Evangeline Hale.
Someone else is following those clues too.
He has spent decades searching for something he believes belongs to his family, and he is somewhere beyond Sealight Cove in the November fog, watching while Nora does the one thing he has been unable to do.
Find it.
As an old chart, a vanished buoy and the lowest tide of autumn begin to reveal what Evangeline hid, Nora discovers that this mystery reaches closer to her own life than she ever expected.
And Rufus seems to have known that all along.
The Ghost Ship is Book Ten in the Sealight Cove Lighthouse Mystery series, a warm coastal mystery filled with small town friendships, maritime secrets, a clever brown terrier, and a touch of the unexplained.
Genre: Mystery
November has settled over Sealight Cove, bringing empty beaches, cold water and fog thick enough to hide almost anything.
Then an unregistered boat runs aground at the mouth of the harbour.
The wheelhouse is empty. A window has been broken from the inside. The diving equipment aboard has never been used. And a thermos of hot coffee suggests someone was on the supposedly abandoned vessel far more recently than anyone thought.
For Nora and Rufus, the clues lead beyond the stranded boat to the wreck of the Resolute, an old family story and a journal written in 1893 by Evangeline Hale.
Someone else is following those clues too.
He has spent decades searching for something he believes belongs to his family, and he is somewhere beyond Sealight Cove in the November fog, watching while Nora does the one thing he has been unable to do.
Find it.
As an old chart, a vanished buoy and the lowest tide of autumn begin to reveal what Evangeline hid, Nora discovers that this mystery reaches closer to her own life than she ever expected.
And Rufus seems to have known that all along.
The Ghost Ship is Book Ten in the Sealight Cove Lighthouse Mystery series, a warm coastal mystery filled with small town friendships, maritime secrets, a clever brown terrier, and a touch of the unexplained.
Genre: Mystery