What the Tide Keeps
When the ferry docks at Wren Cove, the fog rolls in like a warning. Architect Maren Ashford has come home, not to the city that made her, but to the harbor that raised her, and waiting on the rain-slicked quayside are two men she never expected to face again: Dorian Voss, whose quiet devotion once steadied her world, and his brother Rafe, the rival whose name has shadowed every blueprint she's ever drawn. The Voss brothers want different things from Maren's return. One offers partnership; the other offers peace. Neither will tell her why the village elders, led by the watchful Old Halvorsen, keep glancing toward the sea whenever her name is spoken. And Celeste Marchetti, glossy, sharp, and far too interested in the clifftop parcel Maren has come to claim, won't stop smiling long enough to be believed. As the anniversary tide rises and the harbor begins to give up its secrets piece by salt-bleached piece, Maren must choose between the life she's already designed and the truth the ocean has been keeping from her since the day she left. In Wren Cove, what the tide hides, it hides for a reason. And some returns change the shape of every tide that follows.