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In 1929 Mississippi, seventeen-year-old Kiah Grave has learned two things the hard way: church folks can be cruel, and love only leaves a person wounded.
Born without a respectable name and raised in poverty by a mother marked by shame, Kiah carries a bitterness far older than his years. He wants nothing to do with religion, romance, or the fine people who look down on families like his. His dream is simple: escape Rooster Run, make something of himself, and prove that a boy branded by gossip can rise above the life others expect him to live.
Then Zann Pruitt walks into his classroom.
Beautiful, kindhearted, and infuriatingly persistent, Zann is everything Kiah has sworn to avoid -- the preacher's daughter, no less. When she asks him to tutor her in math, their lessons beneath an old covered bridge become something neither of them can deny. Zann sees past Kiah's poverty, his anger, and his shame. Kiah, against all his better judgment, begins to believe that love might not be the curse he always thought it was.
But in a town ruled by class, reputation, and religious hypocrisy, love between a poor boy from Rooster Run and a parson's daughter is anything but simple. As secrets surface and tragedy draws near, Kiah must face the wounds that shaped him -- and decide whether bitterness will define his future or grace can reach even the places he has tried hardest to hide.
When the Tide Ebbs is a sweeping historical Christian love story about shame, forgiveness, social judgment, and the kind of love that leaves a mark long after the tide has gone out.
Book One of the Grave Encounters series.
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