Mara Venn sees her own corpse aboard a ghost ship—and then the first bell rings. Each toll erases one person from every record, every memory and every life they ever touched. After the ninth bell, the entire port of Saint Lorne will vanish as if it never existed. With only eight tolls remaining, Mara joins Ronan Creed, a fugitive captain connected to an eighteen-year-old maritime massacre, and Jonas Sayer, an investigator serving the government that buried it. Their search leads through flooded