Shiela Jane Olley

The Saltwater Ghost Shiela Jane Olley

In the 1870s, Lainey Mercier, a young Mi'kmaq girl, drowns herself off the coast of Saltwater, Prince Edward Island, after she is deserted by her Anglo-Saxon lover.

More than a century later, sixteen-year-old Garnet Macklin dies in a fall on the same stretch of coastline after a fight with his best friend and childhood hero Alden Jurrien.

After thirty years, Alden is divorced, estranged from his children, burnt out in his career and living in India trying to escape the guilt he still feels by teaching street-hardened teenagers who challenge both his heart and his patience. When he unexpectedly gets a job offer from the college in Saltwater, he knows going home may be the only way to find the peace of mind that running away never brought.

But the ghosts of the past are still there...and they want him to put things right.
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