What the Tide Returns
A Bainbridge Island mystery cozy fantasy thrillerBy Fiona Blackwood
Length12h 24m
About this audiobook
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.
Audiobook details
GenreMystery and Thriller
Length12 hrs 24 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 26, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Chapter One
9Chapter Nine
2Chapter Two
10Chapter Ten
3Chapter Three
11Chapter Eleven
4Chapter Four
12Chapter Twelve
5Chapter Five
13Chapter Thirteen
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6Chapter Six
14Epilogue
7Chapter Seven
15About the author
8Chapter Eight
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