Light Over the Bay

Anneli Hartman has learned to trust the patterns other people miss. So when an unusual chain of lights crosses Aarhus Bay, she follows it—and finds the first traces of a hidden system linking textiles, optics and experimental machinery.The enigmatic Mr. Winter has noticed the same phenomenon. He is brilliant, guarded, and clearly knows more than he intends to reveal. Together, they are drawn through workshops, harbour buildings and mechanical vessels as fragments of an old technological network begin to connect.Anneli, however, refuses to remain in anyone's shadow. Her instinct for evidence keeps pushing the investigation forward, while her attraction to Winter makes the question of trust increasingly complicated. Behind every discovery lies another possibility: a message, a warning—or a trap.In a darkly elegant nineteenth-century Aarhus shaped by airships, brass, glass and concealed inventions, The Light Over the Bay combines gothic atmosphere, historical mystery and slow-burning sensual tension.Book 1 in The Hidden Lines of Light trilogy.