An age-of-sail fantasy in five volumes

The Last Light of Orra

Twenty-eight chapters · a condemned warship, a harbor of the drowned, and the last lighthouse still burning

At noon on a clear autumn day, a fishing boat comes into Greyhaven with every lantern burning. Behind it, a black wall is advancing across the western sea against the wind.

A canopy of darkness has swallowed the sun over the western sea. Beneath it the drowned walk ashore, ordinary lamps are the only light left, and the Lantern of Orra is the last lighthouse still burning. Captain Tavin Rusk, brought home in irons to stand trial for the rescue that cost his squadron, and Commander Elske Marr, who served in that squadron, have one night to take a condemned warship out through a harbor overrun by the drowned. Naval battles, small boats in the dark, and people choosing what they owe one another. Written to be read straight through, or a chapter a night.

Twenty-eight chapters · five volumes · about thirteen hours