The Salt Wife: A Dark Folk Tale of Grief and Vengeance and the Sea (Devoted Monsters) by Manon Van Daal

He pulled a woman from the sea. She should have been dead. Instead, she chose him. New England coast. After a brutal winter shipwreck, lighthouse keeper Thomas Greeves finds a woman washed ashore at dawn. She is naked. Bruised. Silent. And wrong. He names her Catherine, after his dead wife, and convinces himself she is a miracle—a second chance sent by the sea. But Catherine does not eat. Read more