When the brig Amaryllis was swallowed in a hurricane, the captain and all the cr
ew were swallowed, too. For thirty years the captain's widow, Geneva Reade, has
waited, certain that her husband will send her a message from the bottom of the
sea. But someone else is waiting, too, and watching her, a man called Seward. In
to this haunted situation comes Jenny, the widow's granddaughter. The three of t
hem, Gran, Jenny, and Seward, are drawn into a kind of deadly game with one anot
her and with the sea, a game that only the sea knows how to win.
