Lem Roberson has lived a quiet life on the Carolina coast, fishing, raising a family, keeping faith in the small, steady ways that never make headlines. But when the dreams begin, the ordinary world begins to thin.A stranger on his fishing boat at dawn.A child with scarred hands building castles in the sand.A fisherman mending nets on a forgotten dock.A waitress who knows things she should not know.A voice speaking words buried for two thousand years...

Some places don't just test you.They remember you.When three lifelong friends, and a dog named Scout, travel to North Carolina's Outer Banks for a late-season escape, they expect solitude, salt air, and a few quiet days on the water. What they find instead is a place that watches back.As they move between Ocracoke and Portsmouth Island, the rhythms of tide and weather begin to press in. Old bonds fray. Unspoken tensions surface. And...