Beneath the waves, in the lawless frontier of Abyss Gulch, Sheriff Lefty Suleman wakes to a catastrophe: his leftmost arm has been surgically stolen, and the thief-a brilliant and bitter nautilus-is building a god from the ocean's fi nest limbs. So begins a trilogy about broken things and the creatures who refuse to discard them. Across three books, the Gulch outlasts a mechanized king, answers a Silence that offers the mercy of forgetting, and opens its gates to a rival civilization that comes for the one thing that cannot be stolen: the way a community remembers. Lefty must learn that true strength lies not in what you hold, but in what you choose to let go. A rich, Shakespearean undersea adventure, The Taller Shell is a tale of vengeance and mercy, memory and repair, and the shells we build chamber by chamber.