When the Sea Calls Your Name

Summary

Every family has secrets. And this one is calling her name…

When Caitríona Devane inherits a crumbling lighthouse on a remote Irish island, she believes it must be some kind of mistake. Her mother, Róisín, never spoke of Saltgrave. Never mentioned the Devane women. And never explained why she feared the sea.

Caitríona arrives with one suitcase, a marriage she longs to escape, and the fragile hope that distance might help her breathe. The lighthouse is meant to be a temporary refuge. A legal loose end. A place to stay while she decides what remains of her life.

Hidden inside the lighthouse are the diaries of Nora Devane, the great-grandmother Caitríona was never told existed. Nora was a keeper's wife during the hard years after the war, a woman left alone to tend the light. As Caitríona reads Nora's words, she finds not a family legend, but a line of women shaped by love, fear, sacrifice, and the terrible cost of being needed by others.

Nora heard the sea calling names. Names of men. Men who hurt women. Men who vanished in storms, in coves, and off cliff paths. Men whose deaths were reported as accidents.

As past and present collide, Caitríona uncovers the truth her mother tried to bury, and the inheritance that may have been waiting for her all along. But when her husband follows her to the remote island, the danger she fled becomes inescapable. Caitríona must decide what survival will cost her, and whether the curse passed from mother to daughter will finally be broken.