The Keeper’s Daughter
Harbor Lights · Book 4
by Nora Ellison
Eleven years after the Cape Weller light went dark, Maren Holt comes home to fix it — and finds the town has been keeping a secret about the night her father disappeared. A warm, windswept story about the people who stay, the ones who leave, and the lights we leave on for each other.
“I read it in one sitting and then called my sister. Nora Ellison writes small towns like nobody else.”
— Early reader, Harbor Book Club (example)
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The Keeper’s Daughter
Nora Ellison
❦The lighthouse had been dark for eleven years when Maren Holt climbed its stairs with a thermos of coffee and a box of new bulbs she wasn’t sure would fit.
One hundred and fourteen steps. She counted them the way her father had, out loud, as if the tower might forget how tall it was if nobody reminded it. At the top the glass was salt-fogged and the wind worked its fingers under the door, and far below the town of Cape Weller was just beginning to wake — a porch light here, a truck warming up there, the bakery on Front Street breathing out its first warm loaf.
She set the thermos down on the iron floor and looked out at the water. Somewhere past the breakwater a single boat was coming home.
“All right,” she said to no one. “Let’s see if you still remember how.”
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