A lost ferry complicates the trip.
Official records say its route was suspended years ago. Beyond the harbor, Etta finds a stretch of sea where the water slopes uphill, rain hangs motionless, and a bell rings from a boat that never reached shore.
Iven believes his missing brother was aboard.
With sharp-tongued pilot Suri Halden at the tiller, they follow a departure the charts no longer acknowledge. Finding the ferry is only the beginning. Its passengers need somewhere they are allowed to arrive, and the officials controlling the coast have little interest in admitting how they became stranded.
Etta can draw the journey they actually sailed. Whether that will be enough to bring anyone home is another question.
The second book in The Unwritten Coast brings dangerous waters, uneasy alliances, and a growing romance into a rescue that depends on ordinary people refusing to let one another disappear.