Along a rugged stretch of coastline, a lighthouse stands guard over deadly reefs that have claimed countless ships.

When lighthouse keeper Coraline Wescott pulls a half-dead stranger from the wreckage below her tower, she expects a simple tale of storm and shipwreck.

Instead she uncovers something far more dangerous.

Hidden lantern signals are guiding ships through the reefs at night.

Smugglers are using the coastline as a secret route.

And the lighthouse itself may be the final signal that completes their trap.

The stranger, Thaddeus Harrow, carries charts proving the illegal routes exist. But the deeper they dig, the more troubling the truth becomes.

Years earlier Coraline’s father discovered the same signals — and tried to expose them.

The harbor council ignored him.

Now the smugglers have returned.

When Coraline changes the lighthouse beam to save a ship from running aground, she disrupts a powerful smuggling operation and puts herself directly in the path of the men who control it.

Because ships full of silver don’t simply disappear.

And the people moving them will do anything to protect their routes.

Set against a wild Atlantic coastline of storms, hidden coves, and dangerous reefs, False Harbor is a suspenseful coastal mystery about secrets, survival, and the power of one signal in the dark.