A finder who can find anything lost. A fog bell nobody can find. And a town that would rather not ask who hid it.

Ada Pennick was born with a small, useful gift: she can find anything that has been lost, as long as someone truly wants it back. So of course she runs the Lost Property Office on Pellow Quay, a granite harbour town where the fog comes in like a tide and a short-sighted harbour wyrm called Sexton loses his spectacles three times a month.

What a finder cannot find is a thing that has been hidden on purpose. Telling the difference is the whole trade.

In the week the autumn gales arrive, the fog bell that calls Pellow's boats home vanishes from the end of the new harbour wall. The whole town wants it back, and Ada cannot feel it at all. Somebody hid it. The new lighthouse keeper, who said in public that his light would do, is the obvious suspect. Ada is not so sure, and she is not sure why she minds.

With a drowned man's watch, a widow's lost temper, a little girl who has stopped singing and a ledger that remembers everything the sea has ever given back, Ada has three weeks until the Calling, the night the bell is rung for every boat Pellow has lost. Somebody had a reason. Ada is going to have to ask.

The Finder of Pellow Quay is the first of the Pellow Quay Findings: a warm, closed-door cosy fantasy with a gentle mystery, a slow-burn romance, a harbour wyrm in spectacles and absolutely no gore.

A closed-door cosy fantasy: no gore, no on-page violence, no explicit content.

The Finder of Pellow Quay

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