David Charleston, once a world renowned journalist, now lives alone maintaining the Thunder Rock lighthouse in Lake Michigan. He doesn't cash his paychecks and has no contact other than the monthly inspector's visit. When alone, he imagines conversations with those who died when a 19th century packet ship with some 60 passengers sank. He imagines their lives, their problems, their fears and their hopes. In one of these conversations, he recalls his own efforts in the 1930s when he desperately tried to convince first his editors, and later the public, of the dangers of fascism and the inevitability of war. Few would listen. One of the passengers, a spinster, tells her story of seeking independence from a world dominated by men. There's also the case of a doctor who is banished for using unacceptable methods. David has given up on life, but the imaginary passengers give him hope for the future.

Martinaud, an illustrious notary suspected of being the perpetrator of two horrendous crimes, volunt...

After losing her father in the sea, Rosa is lodged in the house of the lighthouse keeper João Vidal....

Young Frenchwoman Mathilde searches for the truth about her missing fiancé, lost during World War I,...

Camille arrives in Ouessant, the island of her birth off the Brittany coast, to sell the family home...

Mike Sullivan works as a hit man for crime boss John Rooney. Sullivan views Rooney as a father figur...

Meredith is a 35 year-old unmarried woman who arrives at a remote lighthouse island 1928 with her un...

A lighthouse keeper and his wife living off the coast of Western Australia raise a baby they rescue ...

A boy and his ageing grandfather are connected by the music his grandfather plays. When the grandfat...

A lighthouse keeper and his daughter are in trouble on two fronts--if the authorities find out he is...

A young girl lost in the loneliness and boredom of reality finds solace in an ill boy, whom she can ...

Two strangers, both at the end of their rope, suddenly meet in the middle of the unpredictable water...

Pete, a young orphan, runs away to a Maine fishing town with his best friend a lovable, sometimes in...

Rachel Carson, a best-selling crime novelist, is devastated and filled with guilt over the accidenta...

Killer and shark-obsessive Bruce Kane is in hiding, masquerading as a shark researcher in the isolat...

At Christmas time, 19-year-old Simon returns home to visit his dysfunctional family with Louise, a f...

Just before the young Anna is getting married to the lighthouse keeper Holmstrand, she meets the Nor...

A dying millionaire marries his nurse for companionship, only to experience a miracle cure.

A twin takes her deceased sister's place as wife of the man they both love.

Frederic Lansing is a writer who hopes to find inspiration while vacationing in Hellview, Oregon; ho...