title: The Healing Tide
author: Greenwald, Roberta L.
description: Is any secret worth keeping? For 16 years, Claire Robbins thought so.... to protect her son, William, from the mistakes of her past. Can a tide that once cut provide healing in the present? Life couldn't be any better for Lance and Sarah Snyder. Married for two years and building a new beach house, Sarah is pregnant and blissfully content. All is perfect in Marlin Beach, Maryland for the happy couple. That was until Sarah hears a knock on the door of The Dancing Seahorse from a teenage stranger that she has never seen before - with his steel-blue eyes and wavy brown hair - the mirror image of her deceased twin brother, Dex, who has died in a dangerous riptide accident many years before. After the tragic miscarriage of Sarah's baby, the search for the mystery visitor begins by Mike Miller - Sarah's father and business partner - after he hires a private investigator who finally discovers his whereabouts. A well-guarded secret from the past is revealed, after locating the teen whose name is William, along with his mother Claire who currently resides in Birmingham, Alabama with her husband and other children. Finding them provides joy for some and resentment for others. A time of death and sadness, followed by a reading of The Last Will And Testament, brings about an unexpected transition and discovery - that may heal a broken heart - and change a tide in their lives forever.