The Tide Comes In

No one cried at the funeral. That was the first thing Dr. Mara Calloway noticed.

She has been on Veilmore Island for eleven days when Caleb Holt, fisherman, is found floating face-down in the harbor on a clear, calm morning. The island calls it an accident. The island always calls it an accident.

But Mara is a former FBI behavioral analyst. She has spent twenty years learning to read what communities hide - in their silences, their performances, the precise quality of their grief. And what she reads in the people of Veilmore on the day they bury Caleb Holt is not sorrow.

It is relief.

The deeper she digs - into tide charts and old records and the locked-away history of three founding families - the more she understands that Caleb's death is not the beginning of the secret. It is only the most recent consequence of one that has been protected for sixty years.

And the island, which has been watching her since the first ferry, is starting to push back.

Atmospheric, psychologically precise, and impossible to put down - the compulsive first book in The Island Silence series.