The Waiting Tide
Some stories never end. They wait.
Maren Sullivan arrives in Bar Harbor with one key and a house she has never seen.
An excavator is already in the yard.
A cousin she has never met intends to tear the house down, and the Acadia National Park ranger who stops it knows Maren's name before she gives it.
Then the house begins offering questions of its own.
A piano Maren hasn't touched in years plays four notes she doesn't remember learning. An old photograph connects people who should have no connection at all. And somewhere beneath the spruce lies the story of Mercy Sullivan, a young woman who waited through the autumn of 1839 for a man who never came home.
As Maren and ranger Asa Colby begin uncovering what happened nearly two centuries ago, the past becomes increasingly difficult to separate from the present-and leaving Bar Harbor becomes increasingly difficult to imagine.
Set against the rocky coastline, carriage roads, forests, and changing tides of Maine's Acadia National Park, The Waiting Tide is a warm, atmospheric novel about old promises, unexpected connections, second chances, and discovering that sometimes the place you never meant to stay is the place that feels most like home.
The Waiting Tide is part of Richard Carter's National Park Series of standalone novels.
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