The Hollow Tide Ledger

In the fog-locked fishing village of Saltmere Cove, every ninth night the sea pulls back into an impossible black hollow and returns the drowned for one hour, each wearing the face of someone still loved by the living. Marisol Vey, the village's reluctant new Tide-Keeper, must guide every echo back before the water turns — but the echo of her twin sister, gone five years, refuses to leave, and it wants Marisol to break a bargain Saltmere has honored for three centuries. Now the tide is arriving early and hungrier each night, and Marisol has one week to decide whether saving her sister will drown everyone else she loves.