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Chapter One
The Count
Wren had counted the steps to the lamp room four hundred times, and every time the number came out different. Tonight it was one hundred and twelve.
She climbed anyway. The lamp room was cold. The great lens waited in its brass cradle, patient, the way it had waited every night since the storm.
Wren Ashby
The keeper’s daughter
- stubborn
- counts things
- 17
First appears · Ch. 1
Tom Ashby
Keeper of Gull Rock light
- lost at sea
- kept a logbook
First appears · Ch. 1
The Stranger
Arrives in chapter 3
- soaked
- knows her name
First appears · Ch. 3
Chapter One
The Count
Wren had counted the steps to the lamp room four hundred times, and every time the number came out different. Tonight it was one hundred and twelve.
She climbed anyway. The lamp room was cold. The great lens waited in its brass cradle, patient, the way it had waited every night since the storm.
Act I
The count is wrong
The storm
Tom rows out to the wreck. He doesn’t come back.
Gull Rock
The Stranger
A soaked man at the door. He knows her name.
The logbook
Wren finds her father’s last entry: one step missing.
Act II
The second light
Keeper’s
DaughterJune Ashby
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