Ava Monroe came to Breakwater Bay for six weeks of rest.
After a humiliating breakup and the slow unraveling of the life she thought she wanted, the perfectionist swim coach escapes to Florida's Gulf Coast with one goal: breathe long enough to figure out who she is without everyone else's expectations pressing in on her.
Breakwater Bay was supposed to be temporary.
Then her car breaks down in a marina parking lot, and a quiet, broad-shouldered stranger fixes it without making it a story about himself.
Luke Bennett is the kind of man who fixes things quietly - engines, docks, broken starting blocks, storms rolling in off the Gulf. A former Coast Guard rescue swimmer and widowed father, he has spent years rebuilding a careful life around early mornings, responsibility, and the bright center of his world: his eight-year-old daughter, Emma.
Ava is chaos to his carefully ordered routines. Luke is steadiness she no longer knows how to trust.
But somewhere between sunrise coffee at The Last Dock Light, summer swim practices, and evenings wrapped in salt air and Gulf light, Ava begins to realize that healing doesn't always look like starting over. Sometimes it looks like finally being seen exactly as you are.
Summer Tide is an emotionally restorative coastal romance about grief, second chances, found family, and the quiet courage it takes to let yourself be loved without shrinking first.
Perfect for readers who love small-town romance, slow-burn chemistry, and stories that feel like coming home.
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