Lovers of the Low Tide

The concept

In a Northumberland cove, three people who died at sea can walk ashore when the lowest tide uncovers the chapel step. Each returns wearing a ring that somebody on land has kept. Their living lovers remember the dead imperfectly. The people coming out of the water have had years to remember every lie. Each asks a harder question than whether love survived.

Jean has spent fifteen years telling the village that Alma was a friend. The woman waiting at minus tide remembers what they were doing before the boat overturned. Alma has no intention of spending another hour as somebody’s secret. The free companion novella is Her Ring Came Back Wet.