The Salt in Our Keeping

A widowed cannery foreman pulls a nameless woman from the wreckage of a January storm and offers her shelter, never guessing how deeply she'll reshape his household—or what secret the sea left in his pocket. Set along the rain-lashed Oregon coast in 1952, this is a story of buried grief, desperate love, and the shattering cost of a lie told to protect. As the past claws its way back and an insurance investigator closes in, one family must reckon with everything the tide took—and everything it tried to return.