Amanda Hale's achingly poetic debut novel, set in a 1915 whaling station on the southern tip of the Queen Charlotte Islands, invokes the spirits of five dreamers held hostage to time, place and memory. Drenched in myth and mist, Rose Harbour is home to Leo Slaney, the Newfoundland boss whose fumbled attempts to repair his marriage mask guilt and repressed desire; Nora, Leo's distraught wife winnowed by loss and phantom lovers; Isobel, the Slaneys' rebellious daughter newly awakened to the forbidden love of a Japanese suitor; Lee Sun, a young innocent seduced by the opium and gambling dens of Victoria's Chinatown; and Kazuo Yamamoto, a wronged outsider yearning to recover his wife and child in Japan. In a land saturated with the blood of the Haida, the foreigner and the creatures of the deep, Hale offers a heady concoction of secrets and longing-a story retold in the shocking final pages of Nora's diary.