ORIGINAL FICTION
A Grey Harbor Novel
In Grey Harbor, old stories are easy to dismiss — until a murdered man, an empty grave, and a fog that seems to watch force Liora Tidewell to question everything she thought she knew about her family and her town.
THE STORY
Liora Tidewell knows Grey Harbor well enough to ignore most of its stories. The fog rolls in. Sailors exaggerate. Old houses collect old rumors. And the cemetery on Cemetery Road has been there longer than anyone she knows.
Then, during an ordinary night of pizza deliveries, Liora notices lights moving between the graves. By morning, retired sea captain Joshua Vale has been murdered — and an old grave has been opened and found empty.
Joshua knew Liora's family. He knew something about the grave. And shortly before his death, he tried to warn her that some names were meant to remain under stone.
As Liora begins pulling at the threads he left behind, Grey Harbor's history becomes harder to separate from its folklore. Old families have kept secrets. People she trusts know more than they admit. And the strange fog gathering over the town may not be weather at all.
Whatever was buried in Grey Harbor did not stay buried. And now something has begun to move with the tide.
CHARACTERS
Family, old friends, and a voice in the dark — each carrying more history than Liora realizes.
PIZZA DELIVERY · GREY HARBOR
Quick-witted, tired, and armed with a dry sense of humor, Liora spends her nights driving Grey Harbor's streets, delivering pizza and trying not to get pulled into other people's problems.
She has always been good at noticing when something does not add up. When the town's oldest stories start feeling less like stories, that instinct becomes harder to ignore.
TIDEWELL FAMILY · GREY HARBOR
Liora's older brother is charming, impulsive, and almost impossibly confident in his own judgment — especially when that judgment is terrible.
Under the swagger, Billy is fiercely loyal to his family. When two missing days leave him with memories that do not quite fit, Liora refuses to let the gaps go.
LIBRARIAN · GREY HARBOR
One of Liora's oldest friends, Amber returned to Grey Harbor after years away and now works at the town library.
Calm, analytical, and difficult to rattle, she is often the person Liora trusts when she needs facts instead of rumors. Amber has secrets of her own.
NIGHT RADIO · BEACON POINT
Eli Vance is the late-night voice broadcasting from the old lighthouse at Beacon Point, heard by fishermen, insomniacs, and anyone driving Grey Harbor's roads after dark.
Quiet, observant, and frustratingly difficult to read, Eli seems to know which local stories should not be dismissed — and exactly when to start paying attention.
WORLD & MOMENTS
Places, objects, and moments from a town where old stories are beginning to wake up.
PROJECT STATUS