When the lantern goes dark, the sea remembers its promise.
When the great lantern overlooking the northern coast is extinguished for the first time in living memory, Elizabeth Bennet is sent to see the old tower properly closed—a modest inheritance of her mother’s kin, long neglected and now requiring her hand. It should be a brief winter errand: a few signatures, a final accounting, and one more chapter laid to rest after her father’s death.Instead, she finds Fitzwilliam Darcy.
A gentleman in retreat from the world, he tends the light with a devotion that borders on legend. Proud, solitary, and unyielding, he insists the lantern cannot be sold—that it keeps a promise older than either of them, and that the coast will suffer if it is allowed to go dark.
As storms rise over the cliffs and strange tales stir among the villagers, Elizabeth discovers her own name written in a centuries-old logbook—and realizes the vow bound to the tower may touch her far more closely than she dreamed.
A tale of love, loss, and renewal—where history becomes myth, and two hearts must decide whether to keep the light, or let it finally rest.
Genre: Historical Romance