House Between Ebb and Flood

When the sea breaches her dike, Amabel Orme has twenty-two days to save her land—or lose it to the man sent to take it from her.Regency England. The wind-scoured marshes of the Norfolk coast. Amabel Orme has run Morcant Marsh with her own two hands since she was seventeen, keeping her tenants safe and her secrets closer. When a violent storm shatters the old sea dike, the last thing she needs is Gideon Marchant—an engineer dispatched by the very canal company that wants her mill for itself.Gideon expected a helpless widow waiting to be rescued. He finds an unmarried landowner who knows this marsh better than any survey ever could, and who has no intention of trusting a stranger with her people's lives.Forced into an uneasy partnership by a magistrate's deadline and a ticking spring tide, Amabel and Gideon must reconcile his calculations with her hard-won knowledge of the water—and confront the truths each has spent years burying. A father's old deception. A company's quiet bribery. A boundary line that was never where it should have been.