When Light Takes Hold, (Paperback)

<p>The only fjord in the contiguous United States cuts deep into the Pacific Northwest beneath Washington's Olympic Mountains - cold, glacial water where octopus drift through the dark depths and orcas pass close enough to hear. The light off the surface changes everything it touches.</p><p></p><p>Cole Walker was an architect who had stopped feeling his work. Years of investor meetings and branded skylines had worn down the question that once drove him: What should this feel like?</p><p></p><p>When he walked away, he didn't have a plan - only silence, and the sense that something essential had been missing for a long time.</p><p>Then Mike Danner called.</p><p></p><p>For thirty years, Mike had fought to protect this stretch of water - its salmon runs, its orcas, the fragile web of life beneath the surface. He had a lodge on the water, dark and turned away from the view. He wasn't looking for a renovation. He was looking for someone who could see what the place was meant to be.</p><p></p><p>At Octopus Cove, Cole begins to understand. He sees it in the building - and in the people around it: Sam, who knows every inch of the lodge and watches him carefully before deciding whether he can be trusted; a contractor whose answers come just a fraction too quickly; a shoreline where the eelgrass is thinning in ways that don't make sense.</p><p></p><p>What Cole is building starts to draw people together, shaping something like a community - something like a home. But not everything beneath the surface is what it seems.</p><p>When Light Takes Hold is the introduction to the Cascadia Mysteries - a world of place and community - and something hidden threatening it all. The first chapter ofWhen Shapes Take Hold, Book 1 of the series, is included.</p><p></p><p>If you love Louise Penny's Three Pines series, the Cascadia Mysteries will feel like home.</p><p></p>

• When Light Takes Hold, (Paperback)
• Author: Avery Wilde
• ISBN: 9798999976208
• Format: Paperback
• Publication Date: 2026-06-01
• Page Count: 82