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The Tides We Choose
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 11 2025
Pages: 332
Weight: 0.98
Height: 0.74 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The Tides We Choose is a sweeping contemporary romance about second chances, resilience, and rediscovering the meaning of home.
After ten years in New York, Nora Bennett returns to San Diego carrying only a suitcase and the shards of a life that has fallen apart. A failed marriage, years of compromise, and the silence of unspoken truths have left her adrift. The cliffs, the cafés, the tides of her hometown feel both familiar and foreign - a place where memory collides with possibility.
As Nora settles into life back at her parents' café in Old Town, the city itself begins to work on her like a tide: the golden light of Sunset Cliffs, the bustling Saturday markets of Little Italy, the Gaslamp Quarter's pulse, and the quiet reverence of Balboa Park at dusk. Each place stirs something within her, peeling back the layers of who she was and who she might become.
When she meets Luca, an architect whose vision is as grounded as it is daring, Nora begins to confront questions she has long avoided: What does it mean to belong to a place? How do we preserve the beauty of our past while daring to build a future? And, most of all, can love return in a form that is deeper, more honest, and entirely her own?
Through lyrical prose and vivid sense of place, The Tides We Choose explores how landscapes mirror inner journeys - cliffs eroded yet enduring, markets alive with memory and change, oceans retreating and returning. This is not simply a love story between two people; it is also a love story between a woman and her city, a woman and herself.
For readers of Kristin Hannah, Nicholas Sparks, and Jojo Moyes, Valentina Kulieva delivers a novel that balances romance with reflection, tenderness with strength. San Diego is not just a backdrop here - it is a living presence, a tide that carries the characters into choices that redefine them.
At its heart, The Tides We Choose asks: When everything you thought you were is gone, what do you choose to hold on to? And what do you finally let the tide carry away?
This novel is about heartbreak and healing, loss and rediscovery, but above all, it is about the courage to begin again.
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