The Oagenn: Turning the Tide

For three hundred years, no one has discovered what he is. That is about to change.

In the autumn of 1935, on the hurricane coast of South Carolina, sea captain Nathanael guards a secret older than the country itself.

He is Oagenn (OH-AYE-jinn) - one of an ancient seafaring people who age a single year for every ten and live hidden among ordinary men. For three centuries, staying unseen has kept him alive.

Then a boy is taken, an old enemy surfaces from the deep water of his past, and Nathanael learns that the betrayal which doomed his people came from a hand he trusted. As a great storm bears down on the coast, he must answer for crimes that were never his - and decide what he is willing to become to set them right.

If you love immortality and its quiet costs, found family, a slow-burning secret, and an old betrayal surfacing from dark water - step aboard.

An epic historical fantasy for readers of Matt Haig's How to Stop Time and Shannon Chakraborty's The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi, with the salt-and-weather spirit of Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea, in the sweeping tradition of Ken Follett and Carlos Ruiz Zafon.

"Sasser's prose is gorgeous, and I could visualize Skellig Michael, an island that rises from the Atlantic as two dark peaks, where small dry-stone monk huts sit behind low walls above the sea. Well written and immersive, historical fantasy readers and lovers of seafaring danger will adore this. 5-stars!" - Readers' Favorite

A haunting, atmospheric debut for readers of literary historical fiction with a supernatural undercurrent - the first voyage in a sweeping new series.