A lyrical and moving DEBUT in the tradition of Angela Carter and Margaret Atwood. As a Gracekeeper, Callanish administers shoreside burials, laying the dead to their final resting place deep in the depths of the ocean. Alone on her island, she has exiled herself to a life of tending watery graves as penance for a long-ago mistake that still haunts her. Meanwhile, North works as a circus performer with the Excalibur, a floating troupe of acrobats, clowns, dancers, and trainers who sail from one archipelago to the next. Loneliness has become a way of life for North and Callanish, until a sudden storm offshore brings change to both their lives.