Love doesn't float-it drowns you in a current that dares you to rise.Wren Raine came to Topsail Beach to escape her past, not to fall for Griffin Hayes-her brother's best friend and the town's irresistible golden boy with a past he refuses to repeat. She knows better than to fall. He knows better than to let her.The attraction between Wren and Griffin is instant, forbidden, A riptide neither of them can out-swim. But the deeper they fall, the harder their pasts claw for space; his guilt, her scars, and a lie that threatens to shatter everything.To protect herself and her heart, Wren runs.To survive, Griffin has to rip open old wounds and face his past head-on.But secrets don't stay submerged. And when the truth finally rises, Wren and Griffin must decide whether they'll risk it all for a love Bound by Tide.... or if they'll spend the rest of their lives haunted by the question: What if?Bound by Tide is a raw, emotional, and unapologetically spicy forbidden romance about two souls weathered by storms, learning that sometimes the only way to survive the pull... is to surrender to it.