On the rugged coast of Marrow Neck, marine ecologist Dr. Austin Callow faces imminent catastrophe when an aggregate dredging company threatens to destroy the fragile eelgrass meadows he has worked tirelessly to restore. Armed with an 1888 maritime lease, the corporate dredgers give him just thirty days before extraction begins. Desperate to invalidate the claim with historical title records, Austin turns to reclusive county historian and riparian cartographer Genevieve Runciman. Guarding the town's brittle nineteenth-century archives, Genevieve views Austin's modern bathymetry with sharp skepticism. To halt the impending destruction, the unlikely pair must unite cutting-edge hydrography with historic cartography, forging an unexpected alliance before their coastal sanctuary is lost forever.
On the rugged coast of Marrow Neck, marine ecologist Dr. Austin Callow faces imminent catastrophe when an aggregate dredging company threatens to destroy the fragile eelgrass meadows he has worked tirelessly to restore. Armed with an 1888 maritime lease, the corporate dredgers give him just thirt...