Mari teams up with salvager Julian Henry and uncover more than they bargained for. The past and present come together and danger.

I did like that the lighthouse “talked” to Silvy. Makes sense after all the decades when they lived together. James Bowman Lindsay demonstrated a constant electric light at a public meeting in Dundee, Scotland.

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First and foremost, thank you to NetGalley and Lake Union Publishing for giving me access to this ARC! Eighty-three-year-old Silvestre Swan has dedicated his life to the care of his Newfoundland lighthouse. His petition to relocate Swan Light from its precarious cliff’s edge is going unheard by town patriarch Cort Roland—that is, until a terrible storm brings an unlikely ally into Swan’s life. But is it too late for the stone lighthouse?

Several months after the 1879 patent was granted, Edison and his team discovered that a carbonized bamboo filament could burn for more than 1,200 hours, according to the Edison Museum. Bamboo was used for the filaments in Edison's bulbs until it began to be replaced by longer-lasting materials in the 1880s to early 1900s. A sweeping, emotional tale of hope and perseverance, Swan Light weaves together the stories of two people separated by a century but connected by family, purpose, and one extraordinary lighthouse. Obituary. Sir Kenneth Swan. Authority on Patents Law". The Times. No.58913. 20 October 1973. p.18. Gale CS322140495 . Retrieved 4 June 2021. In 1875, Swan returned to consider the problem of the light bulb with the aid of a better vacuum and a carbonised thread as a filament. The most significant feature of Swan's improved lamp was that there was little residual oxygen in the vacuum tube to ignite the filament, thus allowing the filament to glow almost white-hot without catching fire. However, his filament had low resistance, thus needing heavy copper wires to supply it. [14]

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It is 1913 and in the small town of Norman Cliffs, Newfoundland eighty-three-year-old Silvestre “Silvy” Swan, keeper of the Swan Light lighthouse, is struggling to find the help he needs to prevent losing the structure to the sea. Just over one hundred years later, archaeological diver Mari Adams is in the Mediterranean looking for the remains of the Californian, its story being the subject deep fascination since she was a little girl. As a door is about to close on her research, elderly Evangeline Devon, whose motives are not completely clear, hires Mari to find the remains of Swan Light, providing her with all the resources she needs. She finds out during her first dive that there are other people interested in her findings, people who will stop at nothing to get what they want. As Mari continues with her research, the threats get darker as time runs out to find the truth behind Swan Light.