Mystery

Kai, sixteen, is the deckhand on the 11:40 ferry across Kasumi Bay. Some passengers cast no shadow under the deck lamps: they are dead and don't know it yet. The captain's one rule is never tell them. Two years ago Kai told his little sister.

In the Calcutta of 1920, a girl who lights the gas lamps on her street notices that one lamp goes out every night at the same house. Her father, the old lamp keeper, tells her to leave it alone. She doesn't.