Barnacle Child: A True Relation of Certain Events at Greyhook

When Ewan Bain is lost at sea, the village of Greyhook mourns him as another quiet accounting the water demands. Months later, he comes home. He is alive-but altered. His skin bears strange shell-like growths. His body is unnaturally cold. He does not speak. And from the walls of his family's house comes the unmistakable sound of tide moving through dry timber. As Ewan's mother, Mairi, fights to protect her son, Greyhook's buried history begins to surface. Old beams reused without question....