What the Tide Knows

When Wren Ashworth steps off the last shuttle at the end of Ketter's Lane, she's not coming home, she's inheriting. Her late father Tom's salt-worn cottage in Saltmere Bay comes with more than peeling paint and storm-damaged shingles; it carries a decade of silence, a stack of half-written journals, and a string of questions Wren never thought to ask while he was alive. The town remembers. So does Declan Monroe. Declan has spent years guarding a coastline, and a secret, that ties his family to hers through a tragedy neither of them fully understands. His mother Liana's name surfaces in Tom's journals alongside warnings Wren can't yet decipher, and every answer she uncovers pulls her closer to the one man she's been told to distrust. As autumn storms roll in and the Coast Guard patrols the rocky inlet below the bluff, Wren must decide what she's willing to sacrifice for the truth. The inheritance could set her free, or it could anchor her to a town that has never forgotten, and a man who never stopped waiting. She came to Saltmere Bay to settle a debt. She may leave with a heart she can't take back.