About Where the Tide Returns
She left ten years ago and promised herself she would never come back.
Ten years ago, Dr. Reagan Cole left the Gulf Coast island of Tidewater Crossing in the middle of the night — no explanation, no goodbye, and no intention of ever returning. The town wrote the story without her. Her ex-fiancé held the pen. And Reagan let them, because the truth was something she wasn’t ready to speak out loud.
Now a respected marine biologist, Reagan is sent back to the very beach she fled to lead a critical sea turtle conservation project during nesting season. The assignment is career-defining. The location is soul-destroying. And the man the local church has assigned to partner with her on the project is the last person she expected — Colton Morrow. Her ex-fiancé’s older brother. The quiet one. The steady one. The one who has no idea what really happened the night she left.
Colton has spent a decade believing the same story everyone else believed. But the woman standing in front of him doesn’t look like someone who left because she didn’t care. She looks like someone who left because she had no other choice. And the closer they work together — long nights on the nesting beach, a community that’s slow to forgive, and a conservation fight that puts them directly at odds with his own family — the harder it becomes to ignore the cracks in the story he’s been told.
As old secrets press toward the surface and new feelings refuse to stay buried, Reagan and Colton must each face a question they’ve been avoiding: What happens when the truth costs you everything you thought you knew — your family, your reputation, your carefully constructed peace — and God asks you to tell it anyway?
Set against the breathtaking Gulf Coast shoreline, Where the Tide Returns is a story about the courage it takes to go back to the place that broke you, the grace that meets you when you get there, and the kind of love that only grows in the soil of honest, Christ-centered truth.
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Author Bio:
Dawn Haynes publishes clean Christian romance about imperfect people, honest faith, and the kind of love that doesn’t ask you to be less than you are. Her books include; A Place Called Home series, the Tides of Grace series, and other titles across Christian romance and nonfiction.