The Shoreline For twenty years, Holt has lived in silence by the sea. An ex-fisherman, a lighthouse keeper, and a man who left his past buried on the mainland. In his small coastal town, loneliness is as familiar as the tide. But when a new education program draws in college kids and young families, Holt finds his quiet world disrupted. Old ghosts resurface, new faces corner him, and the secrets he’s kept for decades may finally demand to be faced.

• Slice of life