Three people died when the Miss Carolina went down.
The town called it an accident.
The town was wrong.
Fifteen years later, Nora Banks runs the Southport marina her father once managed - keeping her head down, her records clean, and her questions to herself. She has built her life around not looking too hard at the past.
Then her cousin Mary disappears. Mary had been asking questions about the Miss Carolina.
Now those questions belong to Nora.
As she follows the trail through forged manifests, ghost corporations, and a coastal power structure held together by silence and money, Nora uncovers something far older and more dangerous than a maritime accident. The men who built this town built it on what the water buried. And the first of thirty-one letters hidden along the Cape Fear coast is about to make sure she can't look away.
Nothing stays lost. It just stays hidden.
A gripping coastal thriller with the atmospheric pull of Randy Wayne White and the sharp moral intelligence of C.J. Box. Perfect for readers who want their mysteries to feel like a place - salt air, tidal mud, the creak of a dock at night.
What the Tide Took is Book 1 of the Nora Banks series - a 32-book Cape Fear thriller arc driven by 31 letters, 31 secrets, and one woman who refuses to let the river keep what it took.
