Where the Tide Finds Us

He came to the island to disappear. She taught him how to be seen.After a devastating betrayal shatters his engagement, damages his career, and exposes the emptiness beneath his carefully controlled life, James Somerset retreats to the secluded island of Coralia determined to vanish.He expects silence. Solitude. Distance from the world that applauded him only when he was winning.He does not expect Lily.Lily Branson belongs to Coralia in a way James cannot understand. An artist with paint on her hands and sunlight in her soul, she lives by the rhythm of the sea, the pull of color, and the close-knit community that has always been her home. Where James sees risk, Lily sees possibility. Where he sees ruin, she sees a man still becoming.As hidden coves, moonlit festivals, and quiet mornings in Lily’s studio draw them closer, James begins to surrender the armor he once mistook for strength. But when the woman who broke his life follows him to Coralia, determined to reclaim the man she believes still belongs to her world of wealth and control, James must decide whether he is still shaped by ambition and fear - or brave enough to choose love in the open.Set against the lush beauty of a tropical island, Where the Tide Finds Us is an emotional contemporary romance about betrayal, healing, found family, and the courage to build a life that is honest, imperfect, and entirely your own.