Lighthouse Keeper's Arrangement

"e;You did not leave."e;A grief-stricken marine biologist inherits a decommissioned lighthouse on a remote Oregon coast expecting solitude, paperwork, and enough distance from the life he lost to keep moving forward.Instead, Owen Mace discovers he isn't alone.The lighthouse already has a resident: an ancient, multidimensional entity known only as the Curator. Older than the lighthouse itself, the Curator has spent centuries watching over a cove where the sea behaves strangely, bodies occasionally wash ashore, and secrets sink deeper than the water should allow.As Owen investigates the cove's impossible anomalies, a coast guard investigator begins asking dangerous questions about a growing pattern of deaths connected to the shoreline. The closer Owen gets to the truth, the more he realizes the Curator may be hiding something far larger than either of them understands.Yet beneath the mystery, an unexpected connection forms.What begins as wary coexistence slowly becomes trust. Trust becomes companionship. And companionship becomes something neither human nor inhuman language can easily define.But when the history of the cove threatens to surface, Owen and the Curator must confront difficult questions about responsibility, grief, and what it means to choose another person after a lifetime of isolation.Can a man who has forgotten how to stay and a being who has never understood why discover a future together? Or will the secrets buried beneath the water claim them both before either can learn what love truly means?