Morgan Val Baker

Martin Ward is a cove fisherman, without a boat. His brother Steven has repurposed their father’s vessel as a tourist tripper, driving a wedge between the brothers. With their childhood home now a getaway for London money, Martin is displaced to the estate above the picturesque harbour. As his struggle to restore the family to their traditional place creates increasing friction with tourists and locals alike, a tragedy at the heart of the family changes his world.

A wildlife volunteer on an uninhabited island off the British coast descends into a terrifying madness that challenges her grip on reality and pushes her into a living nightmare.

When headstrong Merrin, trapped in the rhythms of her family's mussel-picking trade, stumbles upon a mysterious hagstone, she unwittingly sets off a chain of events that challenges her family ties, and the unseen forces shaping their mundane lives.

A wanderer drinks from an ancient well and is drawn into a celebration of the Winter Solstice, marking the year's turning at the earth's edge. Sense the stillness in the night, down by the sea, as the wanderer joins with the Guilds of Montol enacting the rituals and customs of distant ancestors to call back the sun.

A young boy creates a make believe world to escape his truth, a world where, at the water's edge, beneath the shade of an ancient tree, a mother forms a perimeter to protect herself and her child from an unspeakable darkness.