the Harbor Keeper: Third Book of Threshold Keeper Chronicles

THE HARBOR KEEPER Book Three of the Threshold Keeper Chronicles When the harbor that's sustained Port Salter for generations begins to die, marine botanist Maren Holt brings threshold keeper Ariel Verne a mystery science can't solve. The fish are vanishing, the water feels off, and no amount of research can explain why. What Ariel discovers is impossible: a maritime threshold, closed for seventy years when its keeper died alone. Clara Downing tended the crossing between Port Salter and Chatham, Nova Scotia, for forty years-until her sudden death in 1957 severed the connection and left the harbor's magic to slowly erode. To restore it, Ariel and fellow keeper Caleb Holt must find Clara's partner across the threshold, an elderly fisherman who's spent seven decades thinking he failed. They'll need the help of an unflappable marine archaeology student, one determined golden retriever, and something Ariel has never risked before: the truth. Because reopening a threshold after seventy years will require the witness of an entire community, and Port Salter doesn't know magic is real. As Ariel and Caleb piece together Clara's story, they discover a cautionary tale about isolation, unspoken feelings, and running out of time. Clara and her partner crossed to each other for forty years but never said what it meant. They're not going to make the same mistake. The Harbor Keeper is a warm, romantic cozy fantasy about the magic of care, the courage to be known, and discovering that the best work-and the best life-is never done alone.

Pages: 278, Paperback, Independently published