Heart of the Sea: Light Among the Ashes

A deaf old preacher. A governor who writes everything down. A clerk who holds the rope.On the Isle of Ashes, where the mountain never stops smoking and the sea brings both provision and peril, the girl who keeps the tally on Pier Four says no to the most powerful man on the waterfront. A young sailor off a timber ketch opens a dead man's book on a fish crate, is laughed at, and reads on. Behind a green door, a man in a red coat begins to write.Thirteen years pass in this book. A boat is built from the inside out and named for the kindness of God our Savior. A house on a hill opens its rooms one by one, and a child is born under its roof who is given back to the Lord. A deaf old preacher's eleven Bibles go north at last. A pier is lost for a peppercorn; a church walks up a hill in the dark past a man with a book; a governor sits outside a gate and hears nothing, and buys a printer so that something can be nailed to every post. And a clerk who has carried another man's bread since he was nine sits down on a stool in a doorway, half in and half out, and writes his own name at the bottom of a register.The Heart of the Sea is a sweeping Christian maritime saga of family, faith, and redemption: bustling piers, storm-tossed voyages to islands of bells, altars, wine and ice, a hidden room where the Word is read aloud, and a quiet war for the soul of an island.Book One, in twenty chapters. Every chapter opens with a verse of Scripture (World English Bible).