What the Tide Kept

By Rosalind Kane

Wren Calloway falls overboard from a cruise ship in the middle of the night, and no one notices she's gone.
Three days later, she washes ashore on an island that isn't on any chart, half-dead and clinging to a wooden plank - and wakes to find a man studying her with more curiosity than fear. Kael has never seen anyone like her. She has never seen anyone like him.
He isn't what the stories about "uncharted islands" would have her believe. His people have their own language, their own history, their own reasons for keeping the outside world at a careful distance - reasons Wren will have to earn the right to understand, one mistake and one repaired trust at a time. What starts as survival becomes something neither of them has a word for yet, in either language.
When a distant ship finally sees her signal fire, Wren doesn't leave alone. And the world is not prepared for what happens when a man built by an island no one has ever heard of steps into a life no one could have written for him - cameras, contracts, a title he never asked for, and a fame that starts pulling at the one thing Wren swore she'd never let it touch.
What the Tide Kept is a slow-burn romance about two people from opposite ends of the earth, the language it takes to actually understand someone, and what's worth protecting when the whole world is suddenly watching

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HKHSXCRY
• ISBN13: 9798175822176
• Release Date: September 2026
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 148 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.0" x 0.3" x 8.5"