What the Tides Remember
Six years ago, Elise Vannier walked away from Harrow Point with her restoration kit strapped to her back and a heart full of things she never learned to say. The fog still rolls off the harbor in slow grey sheets, but Elise is no longer the young conservator who left, she returns as the expert the Cross family has summoned to assess a shipwreck that has been bleeding secrets into the water for generations. The estate at Harrow Point is a place of locked rooms and loaded silences. Simone Cross greets her with crisp civility. Declan Cross greets her with something far more dangerous. Old Captain Webb, who has charted the wreck for decades, claims the tides themselves hold the family's history, if anyone is brave enough to dive for it. Tom Cross and the weathered deckhand Pete Rourke watch from the dock, waiting to see whether Elise has come to salvage the wreck or to be salvaged by what she finds. Piece by piece, Elise pulls the past from the deep: rotted timbers, tarnished silver, a name carved where no name should have been. Each recovered relic reopens old wounds among the Crosses, and rekindles a connection Elise believed she had buried with the rest of her history. When a final descent threatens to surface a truth someone would rather keep submerged, Elise must decide whether to raise the wreckage or let the sea keep its dead. The choice will not only decide what the tides remember, it will decide who survives the remembering.