Low Tides
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Some secrets rise with the tide. Some sink and never surface.
Isla Monroe returns to the sleepy coastal town of Driftwood Bay after a decade away, hoping to escape a scandal and start over. But the ocean she grew up loving now hides the memories she's tried to forget-and the man she left behind.
Calder Hayes, once her best friend and first love, is now the owner of the town's boatyard and the keeper of a painful grudge. When Isla unexpectedly inherits her grandmother's old seaside inn, she's forced to work alongside Calder to restore it.
As they repair walls and repaint rooms, old sparks reignite. But Driftwood Bay holds darker secrets: a mysterious disappearance, a dangerous storm, and truths that could drown them both. As the tide shifts, Isla must choose between staying afloat in the life she's built-or diving headfirst into the past she's been running from.
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