A lighthouse. A diary. A ghost.
Woven among these are the mysterious life-threads of Marged Brice. Professing to be 134 years old, she is dumped at a remote nursing home by relatives awaiting her death.
But she insists she cannot die.
Longevity Project historian Garth Hellyer is looking for the oldest living people in the world. He is skeptical of Marged’s claim to immortality, but is intrigued by her story and an unseen presence she calls “Perdita.” He reluctantly agrees to read Marged’s diaries, allegedly written at the dawn of the last century, and is drawn into the haunting beauty of Cape Prius Lighthouse and the rugged shores of Georgian Bay.
There he encounters a captivating, wide-souled young woman whose bonds with her family, the Bay, an aspiring artist, and a wraith-like child upend his own life in ways he could never imagine.
