This chapter reads Abby Geni’s novel The Lightkeepers as an appropriation of Shakespeare’s The Tempest, emphasizing how the novel revisits and transforms the version of selfhood outlined in the play. The Lightkeepers restores the primacy of nature, offering abundant reminders of humans as one small part of something much vaster. Thus, Geni illuminates the possibilities for melding adaptation studies and ecocriticism, a duo ripe for amplification. Although the novel brings a dedicated awareness to the more-than-human world, it ultimately confirms the necessity of storytelling, a capacity as well as a need innate in humans. This emphasis on the storytelling self proves especially significant in The Lightkeepers’ transformation of the rape that is threatened but never realized in Shakespeare’s play. To illuminate these points, I draw on cognitive theory and phenomenology, arguing for a conception of selfhood that mates a robust or restless interiority with a biologized awareness, which is key to the ecophenomenological approach unifying the entire project.