The Tide Comes In: A Cape Cod Romance Novel

By: West, Savannah

She keeps deferring her future. He keeps not asking her to stay. The off-season Cape Cod is about to make both of them reckon with what they actually want.

Priya Nair has deferred her Doctor of Physical Therapy program twice now. She tells her parents it's a gap year. She tells her best friend she's not ready to leave. She doesn't tell Finn Tavares anything - because telling Finn would mean having the conversation she's been carefully orbiting for eight months.

Finn has worked Rock Harbor dock his entire adult life. He knows the harbor the way he knows his own hands. He's never wanted anything that might leave - until now. He has three sentences ready. He keeps not saying them.

When the summer tourists clear out and the off-season Cape strips down to its essentials, the question Priya and Finn have been avoiding gets harder to ignore. She wants her career. She wants the harbor. She wants him. He wants her to choose it because she means it, not because he asked.

The Tide Comes In is a slow-burn, dual-POV contemporary romance about staying, leaving, and learning the difference between the two.

Perfect for fans of: Emily Henry - Carley Fortune - Sarah Morgenthaler - small-town coastal romance - blue-collar heroes - ambitious heroines

Book 2 in the Nauset Inn Series. Can be read as a standalone. Book 1: Salt & Sunsets.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GZVGM29J
• ISBN13: 9798195837730
• Release Date: May 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"