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It is 1819, and Captain Adam Bolitho is ordered once again to Freetown in West Africa with secret orders for the senior officer there. The slave trade has been outlawed by many nations, but a hundred thousand slaves are still shipped out annually, the profit for slavers considered worth the risk of interception by the Royal Navy. For Adam, newly married and as fiery as ever, Africa will bring reunions and unexpected allies, and a treachery that wears the mask of friendship, and threatens the very heart of all he loves.

They come back to the shore that once held everything: a crooked lifeguard tower, a boardwalk that sighs, a lighthouse that remembers storms better than names. In salt-stung mornings and long, forgiving light, the narrator gathers driftwood, sea glass, and old letters—small relics of a love finished but not failed. Across low tides and sudden tempests, the sea becomes witness and teacher: that silence can corrode or preserve; that breaking can be another form of shaping; that memory does not keep so much as transform.