The morning before Lantern Tide, the sea gives Saltkettle a bottle — old green glass, sealed with wax, with a curl of paper inside and one small, impossible request.
What the cove does next is the kind of gentle magic that washes in on the tide.
A cozy, standalone short story of small magic, found family, and a town that keeps its face to a frightened thing and doesn’t look away — and the warmest way into the Saltkettle Cove series.