What the Tide Returns

Rui Tanaka left Bainbridge Island at eighteen and swore she would never come back. Twenty years later, she returns to scatter her grandmother's ashes and sell the beach house. She does not get the chance. At the first low tide after the funeral, something is waiting on the sand: a wedding ring Rui has not seen since she was a child, a ring that was buried with her grandmother in 2004. The next morning a coin appears, small and Spanish, worn smooth. The next, a letter addressed to Rui in her own handwriting. For more than a century, the women of her family have accepted what the tide leaves — and paid for it in memory. Rui's mother paid. Now the tide has come for Rui's niece. To stop it, Rui must reach back into the shore of her own past and offer something the sea has been waiting for. A Bainbridge Island mystery and a cozy fantasy thriller, in the tradition of Sarah Addison Allen and The Orphanage by the Lake.