LOW TIDE IN APALACHICOLA: BOOK ONE Of THE Florida Tides
Maggie Hawthorn
She didn’t expect to face everything she left behind.
Ella Reyes built a life far from the Florida docks she grew up on—one defined by control, structure, and forward momentum. Returning to Mount Dora was never part of the plan. But when her family’s struggling fishing business starts to slip under, she comes back with one goal: stabilize it, then leave again.
Only nothing here is as simple as it used to be.
The numbers don’t hold. The margins are gone. And the quiet, steady rhythm of the docks is masking a reality no one can ignore for much longer.
And then there’s Jack Carter.
He never left. Not the work, not the water, not the life Ella walked away from. Where she sees failing systems that need to change, he sees something worth fighting for—something built over time, not easily replaced. Forced to work side by side, their differences surface quickly… but so does something neither of them expected to still be there.
As pressure builds and time runs out, Ella is faced with a choice she thought she’d already made.
A powerful offer promises everything she’s good at—stability, success, a clean path forward. It could even save the business.
But only by turning it into something unrecognizable.
Now Ella must decide what matters more: the life she built, or the one she left behind.
Set against the heat, rhythm, and shifting tides of coastal Florida, Florida Tides is a slow-burn, emotionally grounded romance about second chances, difficult choices, and discovering that staying isn’t something you fall into—it’s something you choose.
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