The Trouble With Tides

Harper Calloway came back to Sunshore Key for a funeral, an estate, and two weeks of survival.

She did not come back for Riley Morgan.

Eleven years after Harper built a life away from the island, her grandmother Evie’s death pulls her home to the weathered beach town she thought she’d escaped. Then the will delivers one final complication: The Drift—the beloved waterfront restaurant at the center of Sunshore life—now belongs to Harper and Riley, the woman who stayed behind and never quite stopped mattering.

Harper wants a clean exit. Riley wants to protect the place, the people, and the life Evie left in their hands. Neither of them wants to admit that the chemistry they never acted on as teenagers is very much alive as adults.

But Sunshore has its own agenda: relentless gossip, complicated family, business pressure, old grief, new storms, and a town that refuses to let either woman pretend this is only about a restaurant.

As Harper and Riley fight over what comes next, they have to decide whether home is something you inherit—or something you choose.

The Trouble With Tides is a contemporary sapphic romance about second chances, chosen home, messy families, sharp humor, grief, community, and two women discovering that some unfinished stories are worth coming back for.