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Tidal Year
She inherited a cottage in Cornwall—and a love story her family kept silent about for 60 years.
Rike Hartmann, 46, an advertising copywriter from Hamburg, just wants to sign the papers, sell, and fly home. But her great-aunt Charlotte's will demands 120 working days first—at the Porthgellan boatyard, verified by Morwenna Teague, the last boatbuilder on the coast. A woman like granite who speaks the name Hartmann like a curse.
120 days is long enough to learn how to seal a hull. And far too short for everything else. Then Rike finds a box of letters under a floorboard, dated 1962 to 1988, and Her great-aunt didn't "run away." She followed a woman—Tamsin Teague, Morwenna's mentor. The deeper Rike goes into the letters, the less certain she becomes about what she's actually a house, half a boatyard—or the only story in which someone from this family stayed.
Morwenna doesn't talk much. She shows. And when Rike's old life catches up with her, she finds herself standing exactly where her great-aunt stood in 1962: with a return ticket in her pocket and a woman who doesn't ask her to stay. Two love stories, sixty years apart—and both nearly fail at the same blank line.
Tidal Year tells the story
two women over 45 who started late but refuse to give up
a coast that forgives nothing and preserves everything
letters that guarded a family secret for sixty years
an 82-year-old postwoman who knows everything and reveals nothing
and the question of whether you can rebuild a life the way you rebuild a boat
For readers who Slow burn over fireworks. Mature heroines with a past. Dual timelines. Craftsmanship, weather, sea.
Standalone. No cliffhanger. Happy ending.
A heartfelt romance about the love between two women, with sensual scenes that aren't faded to black.
Rike Hartmann, 46, an advertising copywriter from Hamburg, just wants to sign the papers, sell, and fly home. But her great-aunt Charlotte's will demands 120 working days first—at the Porthgellan boatyard, verified by Morwenna Teague, the last boatbuilder on the coast. A woman like granite who speaks the name Hartmann like a curse.
120 days is long enough to learn how to seal a hull. And far too short for everything else. Then Rike finds a box of letters under a floorboard, dated 1962 to 1988, and Her great-aunt didn't "run away." She followed a woman—Tamsin Teague, Morwenna's mentor. The deeper Rike goes into the letters, the less certain she becomes about what she's actually a house, half a boatyard—or the only story in which someone from this family stayed.
Morwenna doesn't talk much. She shows. And when Rike's old life catches up with her, she finds herself standing exactly where her great-aunt stood in 1962: with a return ticket in her pocket and a woman who doesn't ask her to stay. Two love stories, sixty years apart—and both nearly fail at the same blank line.
Tidal Year tells the story
two women over 45 who started late but refuse to give up
a coast that forgives nothing and preserves everything
letters that guarded a family secret for sixty years
an 82-year-old postwoman who knows everything and reveals nothing
and the question of whether you can rebuild a life the way you rebuild a boat
For readers who Slow burn over fireworks. Mature heroines with a past. Dual timelines. Craftsmanship, weather, sea.
Standalone. No cliffhanger. Happy ending.
A heartfelt romance about the love between two women, with sensual scenes that aren't faded to black.
120 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 10, 2026
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