Wild Dark Shore

Content Warning: This section of the guide includes discussion of substance use and death.

Rowan, a middle-aged woman, is drowning and loses consciousness. While she is drowning, she thinks of her mother. Later, she awakens in pain with Dominic Salt, a middle-aged man, standing over her.

Fen, Dominic’s 17-year-old daughter, sees Rowan on the jagged rocks near the shore. Fen swims out to rescue her and drags Rowan onshore. A massive storm is brewing. Fen runs up to the lighthouse and tells her father, Dominic, and her older brother, Raff, that a woman has washed up on Shearwater Island.

Dom tells his youngest child, nine-year-old Orly, to stay in the house. Then, he goes to the beach with Raff, and they carry Rowan up to the lighthouse. Fen climbs into bed with Rowan to warm her and prevent hypothermia. Then, Dom tends Rowan’s wounds. Outside, the storm howls.