LOW TIDE

The key didn't fit.

Yasmine tried it twice, telling herself the cold had numbed her hands on the walk up from the bus stop. But the lock wasn't just stiff. It was new.

Someone had changed the lock on her grandmother's house.

After six years away in Lyon, Yasmine returned to the old stone house on the Tunisian coast to settle her inheritance and sell it. She expected memories, dust, and the wild fig tree that had taken over the garden.

She did not expect the shutters to be open. They had been nailed shut.

She did not expect footprints in the overgrown garden, or the battered leather satchel and architectural drawings spread across her grandmother's table.

And she did not expect him.

"You're not supposed to be here yet."

Karim is the architect from the house next door. The son of her grandmother's oldest friend. The man her family has been in a silent feud with for thirty years over an old stone boundary wall.

He's been camping upstairs. Protecting what he thinks is his.

Between a contested wall, a missing letter, and a house full of secrets, Yasmine must decide: sell everything and run back to France, or stay and uncover the truth about the man who now holds the only key that fits.

LOW TIDE is a slow-burn, small-town contemporary romance about family secrets, inheritance, and finding home in the place you tried to forget. Perfect for fans of emotional, atmospheric romance with a touch of suspense.