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    The Lantern Keeper's Daughter

    A novel by Elena Marsh

    "Every lighthouse is a promise kept by someone you'll never meet. I wanted to write about the keepers."
    Elena Marsh

    On a storm-battered island off the coast of Maine, seventeen-year-old Wren inherits her late mother's lighthouse, and a logbook of unsent letters that unravel everything she believed about her family. A luminous debut about grief, inheritance, and the light we keep for others.

    Elena Marsh

    Elena Marsh grew up on the Atlantic coast and spent a decade as a maritime archivist before turning to fiction. This is her first novel.

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