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A violent night not only consumes the family’s home and the surrounding land, but also gives rise to legends that spread island to island. 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Plus, get updates on new releases, deals, recommended reads, and more from Simon & Schuster. Click below to sign up  \nand see terms and conditions.  \nCLICK HERE TO SIGN UP  \nAlready a subscriber? Provide your email again so we can register this ebook and send you more of what you like to read. You will continue to receive exclusive offers in  \nyour inbox.  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nFor Sky  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nLet everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final. RAINER MARIA RILKE  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nPROLOGUE  \n1952  \nClay Lockhart’s cries echoed for half a mile up the rain-drowned coastline, carried on the late January storm that tore across the Outer Hebrides—an isolated, windswept stretch of archipelagos in western Scotland. ʮe rain had come ɜuick, driven by a snell, cold wind that cut through old, rattling windowpanes and down to bone. In Saltwell—a small shoreline community along St. Magnus Bay—the residents shuttered windows, called in their children, and herded livestock indoors as they had always done when a western gale lashed against their sturdy homes.  \nBut Clay Lockhart ˀung open his oak front door and strode out into the storm, a body slumped and weighted in his arms: golden hair spilling from a pallid skull, arms swaying like wet dishrags.  \nNeighbors farther up the coastline saw his silhouette in the ˀashes of moonlight between storm clouds, and they made note of the white dressing gown that the body in his arms still wore—now stained with blood from the waist down.  \nHe carried her out to the cli˂’s edge of his property, overlooking the brutal sea, and he began to dig. It would be an hour until the work was done, when he ʿnally knelt down—knees in the graying mud, hair slopped with sea-rain—and placed her carefully in the earth, just as he’d done with his parents a decade earlier. He strode back to the house to retrieve the two smaller bodies.ʮey were merely stones, tiny as garden sɜuash, not yet ripe. He placed them beside his wife, nested against her ribs, then began the gut-hard work of shoveling wet dirt back into the three-wide grave.  \nʮis tale—of the night Clay Lockhart buried his wife and his newly born twins in the soil beside the sea—might have been the only story told the following morning. It might have circulated as the most notable news passed among the Northern Isles for weeks aʾer, if it had been the only troublesomething to happen that uncommon stormy night.  \nBut it was not.  \nClay Lockhart staˁered back to his house, shoulders bent under the weight of grief and the work of diˁing. ʮe sea-rain screamed through the open doorway, and when he disappeared inside, the storm began to thrash and spit—as if it were no longer pushed ashore from the sea, but up from Hades itself.  \nAuld wives and pike sɸaves, his neighbor Neil Hagdorn, a particularly badtempered sheep farmer, would later say when remembering the violence of the storm that night, the way the sky turned a sulfurous green. Rain pelting the walls of every home like black stones from LockMull Beach.  \nNeil Hagdorn heard the cracking of the land, the rush of water as if a landslide were spilling down from the treeless moor hills to the east. ʮe splitting of rock vibrated across the Isles, and many believed it was an earthɜuake, or the fabled long-slumbering giant, Benandonner, who had awoken from his centuries-long rest and was now displacing the land by raising feet and elbows up from the storm-soaked earth. But it was neither earthɜuake nor giant that shook the Hebrides.  \nBy morning, when Neil Hagdorn swung open his door and looked up the coastline, he found the white-washed house atop the sea cliʰ—where Clay Lockhart had lived with his pregnant wife—was gone.  \nBut it wasn’t merely the house that had vanished. ʮe entire plot","cbCainlUKBDjX0kg","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCainlUKBDjX0kg","pdf",5242776,263,"English","# Prologue\n## 1952\n## The storm and the burial","[{\"question\":\"What happens to Clay Lockhart’s family in 1952?\",\"answer\":\"Clay Lockhart buries his wife and newborn twins by the sea, then a catastrophic storm later destroys more than the burial site—his house and the land vanish from the coastline.\"},{\"question\":\"What is Saltwell Island?\",\"answer\":\"Saltwell Island is a fabled drifting island believed to be cursed and avoided, said to appear in the Atlantic with a white house perched on a rocky outcropping.\"},{\"question\":\"Why do people tell different versions of what occurred that night?\",\"answer\":\"As years pass, the original events become legend; warnings fade into superstition, and locals and sailors reshape the story around grief, loss, and sightings rather than confirmed facts.\"}]","Habits of the Sea - Shea Ernshaw | PDF",405]