Rip Tide

<p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>You never know when you're going to say the wrong thing that will make someone hate you forever. It's like a rip tide. You can't even see it from the surface. Then you step into it and the next thing you know you're drowning. - Liz Stolz</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>A small town in Maine has begun to recover from a school shooting when another mass shooting and divisive politics threaten to divide friends and end relationships. Town doctor Liz Stolz and Episcopal rector Lucy Bartlett used to bringing people together find their own alliances threatened. These two healers</span><span style=color: rgba(32 32 32 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> are used to binding up the wounds of others but in this book they are hurt by the unintended consequences of their actions. </span><em style=color: rgba(32 32 32 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Rip Tide</em><span style=color: rgba(32 32 32 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> is about how well-meaning people can alienate their best friends just by wondering aloud or asking questions.</span></p>