Rising Tides

The heart and soul of the Maryland Eastern Shore are its watermen, the men who make their livings on the Chesapeake Bay and its channels. They face hardships, storms, short seasons. Day after day, year after year, they ply the waters-setting their crab pots, dredging for oysters-and are privy to a world many of us never know. Seeing the red dawn break over dark water, watching a storm roll in slow and black from the east. In their rubber boots and thick gloves they pilot their workboats through frigid dawns or sweltering afternoons searching for the blue crab the area is famous for.

Ethan Quinns is a waterman. He wasn't born to the tradition, but has embraced it. He's quiet man whose heart runs as deep as the waters he loves. In this book he'll face more than the challenge of making his living on the Bay or struggling to make the fledglng boat-building business he and his brothers began a success.

There's a young boy who needs him, and a woman and child he loves but never believed he could have. To shape his life around them, Ethan must face his own dark past, accept not only who he is but what he hopes to become.