Here Beside the Rising Tide

**When a romance author tries to escape chaos by taking her kids to her childhood beach home, her plans are upended by the return of a deceased childhood friend, newfound love, and... sea monsters?

The USA Today bestselling author of On Earth as It Is on Television returns with an earnest, humorous take on what humans will do to survive and thrive... or not.**

Ten-year-old Jenni Farrow was a beach kid, a sometimes lonely year-round resident of Pearl Island. When she befriended Timmy Caruso it was the best. They swam. They blew up fireworks. They freed a strange sea creature from a tide pool. And then, near the end of the summer, Timmy disappeared into the ocean.

Forty-year-old Jenn Lanaro is a 24/7 inhabitant of a midlife crisis, desperate to get back to the easier time of her maiden name. The stress of churning out the very popular Philipia Bay adventure-romance novels is only matched by her soon-to-be-ex-husband's concerns about being a truly fulfilled man. Hoping to escape both, she rents a summer house on Pearl Island for herself and her Pokemon-obsessed children.

But shortly after she arrives on Pearl Island, so does Timmy Caruso, still ten years old, talking about how he's on a mission to save the world. It's weird, but then so is Jenn's life, and she tries to ignore the dissonance of his presence and enjoy Timmy's newfound friendship with her own kids. But when strange and frightening events begin to unfold at coasts worldwide—shark attacks, tidal waves, strange sea creatures washing up on beaches hungry for sugar—maybe Jenn and the town can be adult enough to take action after all... or maybe the kids have the right idea after all