The Raven's Tithe

A Salt Coast Gothic Romance

De: C. J. Endicott

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

Some islands keep what they take.

Nell Rourke has spent three seasons working her way up the Maine coast, collecting the stories of people who are running out of time to tell them. Corvane Island is meant to be one more entry in the notebook: a fishing village, a drowned bell, a few rhymes nobody can finish.

Then nine ravens land on the boat and count her in.

On Corvane, the fog takes payment. Every year at the winter solstice a Vaile gives it something of himself — a face, a name, a season — and every year the island stays above the water for another turn. Ronan Vaile is the last one left, and there is less of him each time. He warns her off on the first day. He keeps warning her. She keeps not going.

Because Nell has noticed what nobody else has. There are two sets of height marks cut into the doorframe of the Vaile house, and the left-hand column stops. There are two boys in a photograph in her attic. There is a place on the north path called Spare's Step, and not one person alive can tell her why.

Somebody has been erased. And the woman who has spent her life writing down other people's memories is about to learn what it costs to become part of one.

Thirteen days to the Turning. He cannot keep anything. She refuses to be forgotten.

THE RAVEN'S TITHE is a standalone salt coast gothic romance — Down East fog, an inherited bargain, and a love story with teeth. Explicit content; for adult readers.