The Lighthouse Keeper She Summoned

No one else would take the Corryvreckan light, so widow Effie Finnucane did. No one else would keep hauling the sea's drowned things out of her nets, so she keeps doing that too. Then one night her net comes up heavy with a man who isn't one. Salt-crusted. Furious. Bound to the beam of her lamp and unable to lie to her about what the whirlpool swallowed. He offers seven tides and one true answer. She offers food, work, and her own skin as bait, because the sea has already taken a husband and there is nothing left she is afraid to lose. But the village has seen what she pulled ashore, and the men of the parish have decided what to do about a demon of the strait — and about a widow who keeps one. A monster bait romance of cold water, warm lamps, and bargains struck at the edge of a drowned world.