The Lantern Chronicles: Lux Permanet
In 1807 Charleston, history is full of secrets. Some were lost to time. Others were meant to disappear.
For generations, there have been people who believe the truth should survive—not only wars and famous names, but ordinary lives history forgets. Letters. Journals. Ship records. Names in margins. Proof that someone lived and mattered.
They are known simply as Keepers.
And there have always been others who believe some truths are better hidden, altered, or destroyed.
Obscura.
Neither is simple. A preserved truth can change history, but it can also destroy a family or endanger someone still living.
For sixty-five years, Henri Ravenel has lived with that burden. Then an old clock in Ravenel House begins ticking after years of silence. A hidden message points to a missing page. Records stop matching. A trusted clockmaker disappears.
Then Henri vanishes.
His granddaughter Vivienne intends to find him.
Charleston knows Vivienne as a beautiful young woman who asks too many questions. It does not know she is Sea Kestrel, captain of her own vessel.
Following Henri’s trail takes Vivienne from drawing rooms to dangerous waters, through altered records, false identities, buried names, and lives deliberately removed from history.
Lieutenant Alaric Ashford is searching too. He is intelligent, controlled, dangerously observant—and getting far too close to Vivienne and the truth. At sea, he is Blue Falcon.
Vivienne knows.
Alaric has no idea she is Sea Kestrel.
Yet.
As rivalry becomes trust and attraction grows harder to ignore, Vivienne realizes finding Henri is only the beginning.
Because the mystery of the Lantern did not begin with her.
Book One is where she begins to discover how far it reaches.
The Lantern Chronicles: Book One begins a historical mystery of forgotten lives, altered truths, family secrets, dangerous waters, and two people hiding identities that could change everything.
Who decides what history remembers—and what it is allowed to forget?