Perchance Books

1843 New York. Sarah Eaton hides a desperate desire for her best friend Ada. But soon the inevitable happens—the lively Ada marries and leaves Sarah rotting at home as a twenty-two-year-old spinster. Heartbroken, Sarah takes the only option available to her—she marries a speculator and sets sail for the Oregon territory.

But Sarah's husband is a brute. Violent and ruthless in getting what he wants—a wife who obeys and a mercantile empire in a new land, no matter the cost. Isolated and fighting off starvation on the Oregon coast, their young settlement is soon fraught with a new terror.

A monster hunts the shores. And it's hungry for human flesh.

Nineteen years later, the willful Kate Ashbee has been kicked by misfortune from Kentucky to Oregon. Now she's in a tiny coastal town called Tidewater Bay, and all she wants is a job and a safe place to land. She thinks she's found that in Caroline, her new employer, but quickly learns her mistake—Caroline is the town pariah, and she's keeping secrets: a journal detailing the mutilated bodies and unexplainable disappearance of the original settlement. As Kate unravels this dark history, she'll collide with the dangers lurking in the present. For Death walks the earth when the tide is low.

And Death hates meddlers.