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Blue Tide Rising

Clare Stevens

Publisher: Inspired Quill

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Summary

“Somewhere in me a scream is rising, but I contain it. Just.”
 
Diazepam-fogged Amy isn’t the best person to investigate an unexplained death, but she’s the only one Jay can get through to.
 
On the run from her troubled past and controlling older (ex) lover, she winds up on a Welsh eco farm where she starts to rebuild her life, grounded by the earth and healed by the salt air.
 
But it isn’t just her inner self that she manages to uncover. There are living ghosts at Môr Tawel, and they’re as loud as the waters crashing over the shingle on the beach.
 
Amy’s new life has just started, and she’s already running out of time.
Available since: 03/25/2019.

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