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The Bone Tide
Paperback
Series: The Bone Tide Chronicles, Book 1
Publisher: M.C.Ravencroft
Published: Nov 11 2025
Pages: 310
Weight: 0.68
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Exiled from the mainland, a disgraced forensic pathologist is about to uncover a small town's deadly secret: some debts are paid in blood, and the sea always collects.
Dr. Elara Vance's career is in ruins. Banished to the remote, rain-lashed Crag Islands as their new coroner, she expects to spend her days signing off on fishing accidents and drownings. But when a diver's body washes ashore with a precise, post-mortem incision, her professional instincts scream one thing: murder.
The locals call it the Bone Tide-an ancient myth of a sea that demands a life every seven years. They want the case closed quickly. But Elara's autopsy reveals something chillingly deliberate. The victim wasn't just drowned; he was prepared. A small, ceremonial object was removed from his chest cavity.
Ignoring the sheriff's warnings and the town's hostile silence, Elara digs deeper. She finds a pattern of disappearances stretching back decades, each exactly seven years apart. Each victim connected to the sea. Each death covered up as an accident.
Her investigation unearths a hidden ledger of the dead, a conspiracy guarded by the island's founding families, and a terrifying truth: the Bone Tide is not a superstition. It's a meticulously maintained ritual disguising a dark, scientific experiment in tidal control-an experiment that her own mother died trying to expose.
Now, the cycle is beginning again. The tide is turning, and the islanders believe a new sacrifice is due. As a storm gathers over the Crags, Elara realizes the next name on the ritual's list is her own.
For fans of Kathy Reichs, Preston & Child, and Netflix's Bodies, THE BONE TIDE is the gripping first book in a new forensic thriller series that will keep you guessing until the last, shocking page.
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