A novel about a small town that keeps score.
Book 1 of The Bellhaven Ledger series. June 30, 2026.
Book 1 of The Bellhaven Ledger
Nora Kincaid is sent to Bellhaven for a two-week audit of a small marine salvage company. The books are perfectly accurate. She just doesn’t have a framework for what they’re recording.
A quiet novel about a coastal town that runs partly on debts of a kind the outside world doesn’t measure, a woman whose job trained her to see exactly what she isn’t supposed to see, and a salvage captain whose hands are always dusted with something she can’t quite place.
For readers who loved Sarah Addison Allen, Alice Hoffman, TJ Klune, and Fredrik Backman.
BELLHAVEN GLOSSARY
The Ledger
n. — the record of what Bellhaven’s residents owe each other. Not kept in a book. Not kept by any one person.
The Causeway
n. — the two-lane road between Bellhaven and the mainland, which floods at high tide twice a day. Locals know the schedule. Visitors don’t.
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