What We Buried in Salt

When Vivian Marsh steps off the ferry and onto the barnacle-crusted pier of Salt Harbor, she hasn't set foot in her coastal hometown in nearly two decades, and she has no intention of staying. But the morning a body surfaces from the tidal flats, wrapped in salt-crusted cloth and bound with the same rope her family once used to mark their lobster traps, Vivian learns that some debts to the sea never get paid. The dead man carried a notebook belonging to her late aunt Mira Holloway, a woman who documented everything, every argument, every affair, every body buried beneath the harbor's long silence. Sheriff Elias Crowe wants answers the townsfolk refuse to give. Detective Rae Kim arrives from the mainland and begins pulling threads that unravel three decades of carefully preserved lies. As Reverend Jonah Beck preaches about forgiveness, Linnea Ashford, the harbor's unofficial archivist, starts remembering things she was paid to forget. Della Holloway, the matriarch who built her fortune on salt and silence, warns Vivian that digging will drown them all. Maren Ellis, who once stood where Vivian stands now, didn't survive the last time someone started asking questions. Deputy Harlan Pease watches everyone who comes and goes. With the tide pulling out and the truth pulling in, Vivian must decide: bury the notebook and let Salt Harbor keep its secrets, or open it and watch everything her family built wash away in the wreckage.