Mourning Tide: Seychelle Sullivan, Book 5

by Christine Kling, Rosemary Benson (Narrator)

Seychelle hasn't taken to motherhood as well as she hoped. Five years earlier, when Catalina Frias died in childbirth under BJ's care, Seychelle decided to adopt her friend's orphaned child. She promised the boy she would stop leading a reckless life, stop getting involved with crime, and restrict her business to towing. But now, as Nestor is about to start school, she is questioning her decision to try to raise the boy. Whatever made her think she had any parenting skills? Her adopted son calls her Seashell instead of mommy. She's refusing to marry BJ because she's convinced he will leave her eventually. And she's terrified of joining the PTA.

Then, on a hot morning in June, she raises a wrecked fishing boat from the waters of a Florida swamp, only to make a horrifying discovery. She hadn't meant to get involved, but this time murder found her.

The police are calling it a cold case, but when Seychelle learns the victim was Grace, the sister of her mechanic, she cannot turn her back on the sweet teenage girl who went missing months earlier. The search for answers takes Seychelle from an opulent yacht bound to do missionary work in the Caribbean, to a religious commune bordering on the Everglades, to a yacht race in the sunny Abaco Islands. Can she stop the killer from murdering again without endangering herself and her family along the way?

Audible Audio

Published June 4, 2018

About the author

Christine Kling doesn’t just write about the sea — she's lived on it. She and her husband have sailed their boats across the Pacific, Atlantic, Mediterranean, and the Caribbean, and they’ve logged thousands of miles in a converted ambulance/RV when they’re on land. It’s a nomadic life, and it suits her just fine.
That life on the water is what powers her fiction. Her Seychelle Sullivan series follows a female tugboat captain on the Fort Lauderdale waterfront who keeps finding dead bodies in her waters. The Shipwreck Adventures trilogy sends readers globe-trotting through international nautical thrillers full of history, danger, and buried secrets. And her World War II novel, Whiskey Creek, tells the story of a young woman who takes the helm of her family’s boat to patrol for U-boats off the Florida coast.
With more than forty years of “simply messing about with boats” — as Rat said to Mole in The Wind in the Willows — Christine brings the salt air, the engine grease, and the gut-punch of open ocean to every page. When she’s not writing, she’s probably anchored somewhere new with her two Havapoo pups, Razz and Zoë, planning the next adventure.