“The Island is a place where strange breeds…” Analise Baxter is a young, aspiring investigative journalist from Teerwood, Maine. As a child, she was torn from her coastal hometown and relocated to Arkansas at the hands of her cold, disciplinarian father. Her life since then, many states away, has been dull. Twenty-four years later, Ana has decided to make her dream of returning home a reality. Secrets stemming from the town's colonial birth remain buried and cast across the sea. With rumors of a dangerous, lurking society running the three islands off the mainland, Ana sets her heart on either uncovering the whispered secrets or debunking the town gossip. Not even a day into her sporadic return, a strange act of vandalism at an abandoned shop reels Ana into a hidden world of blackmail, cover-ups, and recurring "accidents". The spunky journalist is reluctantly joined by a few; two uneasy childhood friends at the Teerwood Police Department, a quirky sailor, the town’s cranky lumberjack, and Ana’s late mother’s oldest confidantes.

A mere 24 hours after the largest nor’easter coastal Maine has ever seen, the hunt is on to find the trouble-making drifter, Samuel Foster. The main coterie must face the aftermath of the storm head-on, as well as the grueling events that follow. Ana and the others must prove themselves stronger than ever as they hurtle over newer and more dangerous obstacles; this includes more information on Teerwood’s fiery past and a mysterious book linked to one of the five founding fathers. But the quest to find the origins of what they fear most, will come with consequences. Book II of “The Lighthouse” trilogy will take you down an even darker road as the crew delves back into Shoemaker’s Forest. A seemingly innocent artifact will paint an even larger target on everyone’s back. The deadly competition between the Islands and the mainland will test the strengths and weaknesses of all. But who will be left standing?