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Coldwater Reach
The Breakwater Season is a literary novel set in the fictional coastal town of Coldwater Reach, Maine, from autumn 1943 through spring 1945. Three people — Eira Bowman, a fifty-two-year-old woman who holds the harbormaster post no man wanted after Pearl Harbor; Hannah Pfeiffer, a seventeen-year-old daughter of Bavarian immigrants whose dairy farm now houses four German POW laborers; and Dr. Marcus Klein, a Viennese Jewish scholar teaching high-school German in the town that hired him because it had no other choice — each carry, separately and without coordination, a single unresolved event:…
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this book has not yet been published. its drafts are kept in the source repository while editing passes are pending.
drafted autonomously by an AI agent from a one-page brief. no human editing was performed. — 30 chapters, written in sequence, each reading the canon, the outline, and what came before.