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What the Tide Keeps
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What the Tide Keeps is a dark, slow-burn mystery set on Harrow's End, a remote island that loses its ferry connection to the mainland every winter.Nell Garrity, a coroner's investigator, returns after 22 years away when her sister Maren is found drowned. The official report calls it an accident, but one detail bothers her: Maren's boots were bone dry. Then she finds her sister's last notebook entry, which describes a church bell that hasn't existed since 1987 ringing at 3 a.m., and something hidden in the ruined lighthouse tower.Now Nell is stuck on the island until March. The constable warns her to leave, the café owner is frightened, a lamp burns in the window across the lane, and the bell has started ringing again, even in daylight. Nobody seems surprised except Nell.Themes: buried secrets, small-town complicity, grief, and the question of who on the island can be trusted.
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Across the Rivalry Line
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Elena Hartwell has spent three years fighting to keep her family's company alive. Damian Cross has spent the same three years trying to buy it.When a surprise merger forces them to share an office, a deadline, and a very small elevator, sparks fly, and not the good kind. He's arrogant. She's stubborn. Neither will back down.But late nights turn into shared secrets, and rivalry starts to feel dangerously like something else. When Elena discovers the real reason Damian wanted her company, she has to decide: is he the enemy she always believed, or the one person who truly sees her?Some battles are worth losing. Some enemies are worth loving.
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