Tideline
The 2:14 AM phone call drags Wren Halliday out of a restless Boston sleep and back toward the coast, where her family's past collides with the Pikes , a neighboring family bound to the Hallidays by an accident, a faded photograph, and decades of deliberate silence. With Sheriff Dale Mercer watching every step she takes and old case files cracking open, Wren follows a trail of interviews, statements, and half-remembered conversations. She retraces Iris Halliday's flashbacks, listens to the quiet testimony of Etta Vance and Dr. Maren Ostlund, weighs the cautious words of Cal Reyes and journalist Pip Ostlund, and pieces together the patched histories of her brother Tom Halliday and the grandfather whose photograph she has carried since childhood. The investigation circles around Lila Reyes, an interview that yields more questions than answers; around Hank Drew and the small lies of a close-knit town; and around Eleanor Pierce, whose name surfaces in the margins of every official record. Each clue points closer to Jonas Pike , and now his daughter Lena , and to a truth that has been waiting at the tideline for someone brave enough to claim it. But the deeper Wren digs, the closer she walks to a secret Mae Halliday has spent her whole life protecting. To uncover what the tideline has kept, Wren must decide how much of her family's history she is willing to exhume , and whether the truth is worth the family it may destroy.