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The Lighthouse Keeper's Diary

Her new life was in the past.

HistoricalSeaside & CoastalSmall-Town LifeStarting Over

4 chapters published of 25 planned · about 23 min of reading · Updated today · ongoing

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Fifty-four, divorced, and thoroughly displaced, archivist Evelyn Sterling takes the only job she can get: director of the underfunded Port Clement Maritime Museum on the remote coast of Lake Superior. It feels like a career shipwreck, a place to hide out while she figures out what comes next.

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But among the dusty donations is a salt-stained trunk containing the private diary of a lighthouse keeper from 1924. Its pages tell a story of a famous local shipwreck that is the opposite of the town's founding legend—a story of cowardice, not heroism, that protected a powerful family's name for a century.

As Evie is drawn deeper into the hundred-year-old secret, she finds herself at odds with the town's most influential family and in a battle to save the museum itself. To bring the truth to light, she'll have to build a new life from the pieces of the old, and discover that starting over isn't about where you go, but where you belong.

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All chapters4

  1. 1Nothing Worth Writing Down6 min
  2. 2The Captain Was a Sot6 min
  3. 3We Have Our Own5 min
  4. 4Local Fiction6 min

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