The Tide Table Café: A Single Dad, Small-Town, Slow-Burn Romance

By Ruth Andrews

She swore off fishermen the day the sea took her father. Now the town's most stubborn one is showing up every morning before dawn, and she can't remember why she was so sure she'd never let herself love one again.
Caf owner Della Finch has run the Tide Table on her own terms for five years, coffee and pastries and a firm, private rule: never fall for a man who makes his living on the water. Then her last employee quits three weeks before the summer rush, and widowed fisherman Coop Reyes shows up needing afternoon childcare for his six-year-old daughter. A trade is only practical. Mornings for his hands, afternoons for hers. Nothing more.
Except Poppy adores her instantly, and Coop is patient in a way that makes Della's careful rule considerably harder to remember. Slowly, she lets herself imagine a life she swore off eighteen years ago, back on the water, back in love, back to trusting that the people she cares about will come home.
Then a night on the water goes wrong, and Della has to decide whether the man in front of her is worth the fear she's spent half her life protecting herself with.
A sweet, small-town, single-dad romance about the courage it takes to love someone whose life depends on something you can't control.
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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HGBRB5X6
• ISBN13: 9798194628070
• Release Date: August 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 102 Pages
• Weight: 0.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.5" x 8.5"