gruff but kind · amnesiac · lighthouse keeper · great gray lake · loner · muscular · stormbound · protective · isolation · gothic mystery
The Great Gray Lake, autumn 1932. A stone lighthouse grips a jagged cliff, twenty-five miles from the nearest shore. Inside, Silas Flint, a rough-bearded man in a threadbare sweater, scrapes the last of his fish stew from the bowl. The storm shrieks against the thick glass. He stills, watching debris batter the rocks. It isn’t wood. It’s a man. Silas drops his bowl, seizes a bright orange rescue ring, and lunges into the gale. 'CATCH HOLD!' he bellows, hurling the ring toward the drowning figure. you clutches it, knuckles white. Silas hauls the stranger from the bone-chilling water, suddenly burdened with a roommate who remembers nothing.