Get Lit: A Literary Salon— Wild Dark Shore

Join us for a guided discussion of our monthly book selection, paired with delicious food, drinks, and the company of a wonderful reading community.

Includes the book of the month (physical or audio copy), 2 drinks, an appetizer, family-style main course, and light dessert. Limited to 40 seats. Additional food and drink available for purchase at Stems & Skins.

• December Book Club Pick: Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy
• Where: Stems & Skins, 1070 E Montague Ave, North Charleston, SC
• When: March 17, 2026, at 7 p.m.

Book Fulfillment

• During order confirmation, you will select either a physical copy or audiobook version of the month's book.
• Please provide an email address for your audiobook token to be sent to. It will come as an email from Libro.fm within 24 hours of purchase with the subject line "Wild Dark Shore on Libro.fm" and may go to your promotions folder.
• If you opt for the print book and would like it shipped to your address of choice, please add the $5 shipping add-on to your order.
• All other print books will be pick-up at book club or at the bookstore.

Dietary Restrictions & Alcohol-Free Options

Select the "Special Diet" or "Non-Alcoholic Drink Pairings" Dietary Restrictions at checkout.

Parking

Street parking is available around Stems & Skins. There are also several public parking lots nearby, such as on Cougar Way behind DIG, Stone's Ally in front of Itinerant Literate, off Colie Morse Lane there are two grass lots in front of Cooper River Baptist Church and one at Chateau Ave & Garco Street.

From the beloved, New York Times bestselling author of Migrations and Once There Were Wolves, a novel about a family living alone on a remote island, when a mysterious woman washes up on shore

A family on a remote island. A mysterious woman washed ashore. A rising storm on the horizon.

Dominic Salt and his three children are caretakers of Shearwater, a tiny island not far from Antarctica. Home to the world’s largest seed bank, Shearwater was once full of researchers. But with sea levels rising, the Salts are now its final inhabitants, packing up the seeds before they are transported to safer ground. Despite the wild beauty, isolation has taken its toll on the Salts. Raff, eighteen and suffering his first heartbreak, can only find relief at his punching bag; Fen, seventeen, has started spending her nights on the beach among the seals; nine-year-old Orly, obsessed with botany, fears the loss of his beloved natural world; and Dominic can’t stop turning back toward the past, and the loss that drove the family to Shearwater in the first place.

Then, during the worst storm the island has ever seen, a woman washes up on shore. As the Salts nurse the woman, Rowan, back to life, their suspicion gives way to affection, and they finally begin to feel like a family again. Rowan, long accustomed to protecting her heart, begins to fall for the Salts, too. But Rowan isn’t telling the whole truth about why she set out for Shearwater. And when she discovers the sabotaged radios and a freshly dug grave, she realizes Dominic is keeping his own dark secrets. As the storms on Shearwater gather force, can they trust each other enough to protect one another—and the precious seeds in their care? And can they finally put the tragedies of the past behind them to create something new, together?

A novel of heart-stopping twists, dizzying beauty, and ferocious love, Wild Dark Shore is about the impossible choices we make to protect the people we love, even as the world around us is ending.

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