The 103rd Passenger: Historical Horror Suspense Detective Series Blackwood Archives Book

Merritt Blackwood makes her living finding what others have lost—deeds, heirs, answers in brittle ink. When Senator Julian Thorne pays her to prove descent from a mysterious 1620 “passenger,” she uncovers a water-warped notebook and an iron cuff that should not exist. The ink bleeds, a map below the shore reveals a “Nursery,” and every source that touched the ledger either vanished or walked into the sea.Chasing Mercy Blackwood’s trail from museum vaults to a salt-slick marsh, Merritt discovers the truth: her family is not merely tied to these things—they were the Keepers who sang them to sleep. Now the seals are cracking. The senator will trade his humanity for a second birth, the sea has learned the coordinates, and the things in the tanks are waking.Merritt must use a glass rod that screams, a legacy she didn’t choose, and a voice she is only beginning to hear. If she fails, the tide won’t only swallow a town—it will rewrite every family line it touches. Can a genealogist write a future when the past itself is alive and hungry?