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The Lighthouse Keeper's DaughterWren Harbor 1Mara Ellison

The Lighthouse Keeper's DaughterWren Harbor 1, 312 pages. A letter mortared into the lighthouse wall names a girl the whole town swears never lived.

Cold LedgerCasco Bay 1Mara Ellison

Cold LedgerCasco Bay 1, 368 pages. A city accountant finds a woman still drawing her salary eleven months after her own funeral.

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What arrives, and when

Six letters in the first two weeks, then one a month. This is all of it.

Your free book: The Lighthouse Keeper's DaughterRight away

Here's your BookFunnel link. Pick Kindle, Apple Books, Kobo or PDF and it lands on your device in about a minute. If anything goes wrong, reply and it gets fixed the same day.

The real lights behind Gull Rock LightDay 2

Gull Rock Light is made up. The three lighthouses it's built from are not. Here they are, with the 1952 newspaper page that started the book.

The Salt Road is $0.99 until SundayDay 4

Book two, snowed in at the Gannet Inn, is $0.99 on every store this week for readers on the list. Or get books two and three signed in paperback for $32.

Three questions, then I'll stop askingDay 7

Cosy or dark? Ebook, paper or audio? Which store? Your answers decide which letters you get, so nobody gets a preorder link for a book they'd never read.

Book four has a date: March 9Launch window

You read Wren Harbor, so you hear first. The cover, chapter one, the preorder link for your store, and signed hardcovers from Portland.

Read book four six weeks early?Day 14

The early reader team gets A Lantern for the Drowned in January. We ask for an honest review, wherever you like, with a note that your copy was free. Any honest review is welcome, critical ones included.

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Is it the whole book?

Yes, all 312 pages of The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter, or all 368 of Cold Ledger. It's yours to keep even if you leave the list.

Already read both?

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It's used for the Fog Letter and nothing else. It is never sold, swapped or shared, and every letter has a one-click unsubscribe.

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