the Last Song on Titanic

A song begun in 1912. A soul that remembers. A love that never left.Thomas Avery boards the RMS Titanic as a working musician - a husband, a father, a man who folds his shirt before he touches his violin. Crossing the Atlantic is just a job. Home is what matters.In the quiet hours after the wealthy passengers retire and the corridors go still, Thomas begins to compose. What starts as a love song for his wife Christine - tender, intimate, written in the language of ten years of marriage - slowly transforms into something more. A lullaby. The melody shifts the way Thomas's own heart shifts when he thinks of his children: softer, slower, full of the particular ache of a father far from home.He plays it for the other musicians one night, almost apologetically. He doesn't expect what happens next.Because every man in that room is carrying the same thing in his coat pocket - a photograph, a letter, a name he whispers before he sleeps. Thomas's unfinished song reaches straight into all of it. Suddenly, eight working men, strangers from different countries and different lives, are playing music that sounds like their wives. Their children. Their ordinary, irreplaceable lives waiting on the other side of the ocean.They are still playing when the Titanic goes down.One hundred years later, archivist Elias Mercer has spent his life keeping the world at a careful distance - restoring other people's histories while carefully avoiding his own. When a recovered violin case arrives at his archive, he expects damaged sheet music and salt-stained letters. What he doesn't expect is to pick up an instrument he hasn't touched in years and begin playing notes he has never seen written anywhere. To dream of children whose names he shouldn't know. To grieve for a woman named Christine as though he loved her himself.Thomas Avery never made it home.But some things refuse to stay lost at the bottom of the ocean.When I Get Home is still playing.The Last Song on the Titanic is a dual-timeline historical fiction novel about love, loss, memory, and the music that connects us across lifetimes. Perfect for readers of The Midnight Library, Outlander, and Before We Were Yours.

Pages: 268, Paperback, Cedar & Salt Publishing