Love doesn't float—it drowns you in a current that dares you to rise.

Wren Raine came to Topsail Beach to escape her past, not to fall for Griffin Hayes—her brother's best friend and the town's irresistible golden boy with a past he refuses to repeat. She knows better than to fall. He knows better than to let her.

The attraction between Wren and Griffin is instant, forbidden, A riptide neither of them can out-swim. But the deeper they fall, the harder their pasts claw for space; his guilt, her scars, and a lie that threatens to shatter everything.

To protect herself and her heart, Wren runs.



To survive, Griffin has to rip open old wounds and face his past head-on.

But secrets don’t stay submerged. And when the truth finally rises, Wren and Griffin must decide whether they'll risk it all for a love Bound by Tide . . . or if they'll spend the rest of their lives haunted by the question: What if?



Bound by Tide is a raw, emotional, and unapologetically spicy forbidden romance about two souls weathered by storms, learning that sometimes the only way to survive the pull . . . is to surrender to it.