The Lightkeeper of Gannet Shoal

About this book

Twelve-year-old Wynn Penhallow has met exactly thirty-one people. She keeps the beacons of Shoal Light Nine with her fierce great-aunt Ottoline, guiding freighters through a drifting reef of tiny black holes. One night, playing with a forbidden sequence of lights, Wynn sees something deep in the Shoal flash the same sequence back. Days later a navy cruiser arrives to switch the Light off for good, and raiders come for a song Wynn did not know was worth killing for. Torn from the only home she remembers and dropped into Concord, a spinning capital of nine million strangers, Wynn must decide whom to trust while everyone wants what she knows. Sixty-two years ago, a thirteen-year-old girl stowed away on a ship that went into the Shoal and never came out. Now something is coming back.