Tides We Once Knew

Fourteen years ago, Sloane Ashworth fled Saltmere, Maine without once looking in the rearview mirror. She left behind a white lighthouse at the harbor's mouth, a fractured Ashworth family legacy, and a version of herself she no longer recognized. Now a surprise inheritance has dragged her back to a town that still smells of salt and time, and to the people she swore she would never see again. The lighthouse is hers, along with everything it contains: unopened letters, a locked room Margaret Pruitt has refused to enter for over a decade, and the slow-burning question of what really happened the summer Sloane left. Harriet Ashworth keeps her silences like a second language. June Voss and Dominic Voss know more than they're saying. So does Tess Moran, and so does old Eloise, who looks at Sloane like she's been waiting years for someone to come home. At the center of it all is Callum, the boy she left behind, the man the town has never quite let her forget. As Sloane sorts through the Ashworth women's guarded history, she must decide whether to sell the lighthouse and return to the life she's built elsewhere, or stay and finally face the tide she's been running from since she was eighteen. Some inheritances are made of stone. Others are made of something much harder to let go.