Excerpt from Past the Shallows by Favel Parrett, plus links to reviews, author biography & more

They were all around here, out deep. Rocks that weren't attached to land but were big enough on their own to disturb the water—to change its path. And maybe they had been islands once, those rocks. Small islands or maybe even bigger ones before they got worn away. Worn by the water and by the wind and the rain until they were gone from sight. And only the foundations remained, hidden and lost under the sea.

There were things that no one could teach you—things about the water. You just knew them or you didn't and no one could tell you how to read it. How to feel it.

Miles knew the water. He could feel it. And he knew not to trust it.

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