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Autumn Hardcover · 312 Pages
The Chalkmere Ledger
A Novel of Tides, Memory, and Inherited Maps
When hydrographer Mara Fenwick inherits a salt-stained harbor ledger on a quiet chalk estuary, three generations of unrecorded crossings surface before the winter equinox.
"A luminous, patient novel about what a coastline remembers long after its keepers leave."
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Chapter One — Low Water at Chalkmere
At six in the morning the tide had pulled so far past the stone slipway that the ribs of the old ferry lay bare in the silt, dark as steeped oak and ticking softly as they dried.
Mara set her canvas satchel on the sea wall and opened the brass clasp of her uncle’s ledger. Every page had been ruled by hand in diluted iron ink: date, wind quarter, barometer reading, and beside the numbers a narrow margin for small domestic facts that belonged to no harbor authority on earth.
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