The Bone Tide

<p><strong>Exiled from the mainland a disgraced forensic pathologist is about to uncover a small town's deadly secret: some debts are paid in blood and the sea always collects.</strong></p><p>Dr. Elara Vance's career is in ruins. Banished to the remote rain-lashed Crag Islands as their new coroner she expects to spend her days signing off on fishing accidents and drownings. But when a diver's body washes ashore with a precise post-mortem incision her professional instincts scream one thing: <em>murder</em>.</p><p>The locals call it the Bone Tide-an ancient myth of a sea that demands a life every seven years. They want the case closed quickly. But Elara's autopsy reveals something chillingly deliberate. The victim wasn't just drowned; he was <em>prepared</em>. A small ceremonial object was removed from his chest cavity.</p><p>Ignoring the sheriff's warnings and the town's hostile silence Elara digs deeper. She finds a pattern of disappearances stretching back decades each exactly seven years apart. Each victim connected to the sea. Each death covered up as an accident.</p><p>Her investigation unearths a hidden ledger of the dead a conspiracy guarded by the island's founding families and a terrifying truth: the Bone Tide is not a superstition. It's a meticulously maintained ritual disguising a dark scientific experiment in tidal control-an experiment that her own mother died trying to expose.</p><p>Now the cycle is beginning again. The tide is turning and the islanders believe a new sacrifice is due. As a storm gathers over the Crags Elara realizes the next name on the ritual's list is her own.</p><p><strong>For fans of Kathy Reichs Preston & Child and Netflix's Bodies THE BONE TIDE is the gripping first book in a new forensic thriller series that will keep you guessing until the last shocking page.</strong></p>