Sea of Tears

The Keeper of the Dead protects all souls; living and dead.

Newly named Keeper of the Dead, Sondra Carstairs, senses a new threat to the remote Atlantic island of Anona. When a soul reaches out to her from deep within the formless energy of the veil, Sondra receives the confirmation she needs. For when this soul walked among the living, he was a powerful Man of the Sea and her father.

Then Livy Talbot, Sondra’s cousin, arrives on Anona and the threat is revealed: an enemy of the Keeper with the ability to command the sea into a deadly storm. To keep her cousin alive, Sondra follows her instincts—and her father’s guidance—and banishes the storm. In doing so, she reveals her own strength to this faceless islander that sends storms easily from the shadows.

When this islander reveals an additional ability to steal another’s soul, Sondra has to figure out who this islander is—and why they are determined to push Anona into the Land of the Dead, from where none will return.

Adele Morris, a pseudonym for Katryn Hancock, was born in Glasgow and grew up in the northern suburbs of South Australia. She has a degree in business management and has worked in finance, technology and project management. She lives in Adelaide, where she has spent the last twenty years exploring story and mythology. The Lost Soul is her first novel and explores the mythology of sea and the power of the living world that the ancients believed all people once had access to.