A shell with brilliant striations. Golds and whites and purples. Perfectly in its setting on the calm, warm beach.Beautiful, intriguing.Beguiling, even.Lydia hardly expects the creature be dangerous.But then, looks can decieve.A complex tale of mystery, misadventure, family, and a sea gone wild, from the author of Raphael Marooned. Sean Monaghan is the author of more than one hundred stories, in print, online, on broadcast radio and podcast. His stories include "Concentration" in Landfall, and "The Molenstraat Music Festival" in Asimovs. He was the Grand Prize winner in the 2014 Jim Baen Memorial Writing Contest for his story "Low Arc"
