The Light Over the Bay

The first signal was only the beginning.

When Anneli Hartman notices a strange sequence of lights moving across Aarhus Bay, she expects curiosity—not a trail leading into coded textiles, hidden optical machinery and a network someone is determined to keep secret.

Mr Winter sees the signal too. Reserved, brilliant and carrying secrets of his own, he knows far more than he first admits. As Anneli follows patterns others overlook, their investigation draws them through workshops, harbour warehouses, mechanical vessels and a forgotten system built from glass, light and timing.

But Anneli is nobody’s assistant. Her sharp eye for evidence—and her growing attraction to Winter—pulls her deeper into a mystery where every signal may carry more than one meaning, and where trust can be as dangerous as the technology they are trying to understand.

Set in a darkly elegant, steampunk-light Aarhus of airships, brass, glass and hidden technologies, The Light Over the Bay blends gothic atmosphere, intelligent mystery and slow-burn sensual tension.

Book 1 in The Hidden Lines of Light trilogy.