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Set in the quiet coastal town of Toveda Bay, Dread of the Ocean follows Osheuna, a sheltered, artistic teenage girl raised in a lighthouse overlooking restless waters. Homeschooled by her father, Chandler Winoski, Osheuna's world is small but rich - filled with books, paintings, and the steady rhythm of the sea.
Everything changes the night a violent storm drives a fishing boat into their dock.
From that wreckage emerges Grusha Tabose, the son of a fisherman bound to the tides and to a family legacy rooted deep in the bay. His arrival pulls Osheuna out of isolation and into a life she's never known - school, friendships, first love, and the messy beauty of growing up in a town where everyone knows your name and your secrets.
But Toveda Bay is not just a town.
As Osheuna begins attending Toveda Academy and forming connections beyond the lighthouse, she becomes increasingly drawn to a mystery long embedded in her home: a strange painting signed by an unknown artist, H. Ashler, whose work seems to echo the ocean itself. What begins as curiosity slowly unravels into something far older and far more dangerous than small-town drama.
Beneath the romance, the friendships, and the heartbreak, the sea watches.
The ocean in Toveda Bay is not passive. It remembers. It reacts. And it has been waiting.
As Osheuna and Grusha grow closer, they are unknowingly pulled toward a truth that ties together art, legacy, and a presence lurking beneath the waves - a force that does not announce itself with storms alone, but with silence, electricity, and dread.
Dread of the Ocean is a supernatural coming-of-age story about first love, identity, and the quiet terror of realizing that the place you call home may be alive - and may have chosen you.