A Novel · Historical Fiction
Elias Thorne
On the eve of automation, an aging lighthouse keeper prepares for his final night of service — unaware that the sea is about to return a century-old secret.
A Novel · Historical Fiction
On the eve of automation, an aging lighthouse keeper prepares for his final night of service — unaware that the sea is about to return a century-old secret.
The Story
Across a hundred years on a windswept headland in Maine, the Thorne family keeps the light at Blackstone Point — through storm and fog, birth and fever, memory and loss. As the last keeper waits out his final night before the machines take over, the tide carries back something the coast had tried to forget. A quiet, luminous work of literary historical fiction about duty, solitude, and the things a lighthouse is built to remember.
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October 15, 1987 · Blackstone Point, Maine. An aging keeper begins his final shift as the machines prepare to take the light.
Read Chapter One → Chapter TwoThe Coast of Maine, before 1886. How a tower — and a family's century of duty — first came to stand upon the cliffs.
Read Chapter Two →About the Author
Radim Kaufmann writes literary and historical fiction in English — quiet, carefully researched stories for readers who believe that small lives carry great weight. Explore more of his work at radimkaufmann.com.